different between raiment vs wardrobe

English

Etymology

Aphetized from Middle English arayment, borrowed from Anglo-Norman arraiement and Old French areement, from areer (“to array”). See array.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.m?nt/

Noun

raiment (countable and uncountable, plural raiments)

1. (archaic or literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.

Translations

Anagrams

• Inter-Am., Reitman, Tremain, antimer, antmire, artemin, matrine, meranti, minaret, trimean

English

Etymology

From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??d???b/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w??d?o?b/

Noun

wardrobe (plural wardrobes)

1. (obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
2. (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
3. (figuratively) The building housing such a department.
4. (obsolete) Any closet used for storing anything.
5. A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
6. (figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
7. A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
8. A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
9. (figuratively, uncommon) Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
   • 1605, 1st Pt. Jeronimo:

     Now death... crams his store house to the top with bloud,
     Might I now and Andrea in one fight,
     Make vp thy wardroope
     Richer by a knight.

10. The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
11. (figuratively) Any collection of clothing.
12. (figuratively, uncommon) Any collection of anything.
13. (obsolete) A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
14. (hunting, obsolete) Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.

Synonyms

• (movable furniture for storing clothes): armoir, dresser; cupboard (UK); closet (regional US), press (Irish & Scots), shrank
• (department overseeing costumes): costume department
• (sleeping chamber): See bedroom
• (lavatory or outhouse): See Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• lowboy
• tallboy

Verb

wardrobe (third-person singular simple present wardrobes, present participle wardrobing, simple past and past participle wardrobed)

1. (intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
   • 1954 December 11, Billboard, p. 20:

     […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.

References

• "wardrobe, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1921), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• bareword, bore draw, bore-draw, drawbore