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But compare the spacious palace and great warderobe of the one, with the hovel and the few rags of the other, and you will be sensible that the difference between their cloathing, lodging, and household furniture, is almost as great in quantity as in quality.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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But compare the spacious palace and great warderobe of the one, with the hovel and the few rags of the other, and you will be sensible that the difference between their cloathing, lodging, and household furniture, is almost as great in quantity as in quality.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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_ ---- And to Robert Boillet for blac paper and nailles for closing and fastenyng of diuers cofyns of ffyrre wherein the Kings boks were conveyed and caried from the Kings grete warderobe in London vnto Eltham aforesaid, v_d.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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I also like the Aaliyah-esque look of her warderobe in the video.
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The messanger assured him of al that he required, and instructed him what he had to doe for the accomplishement of that he loked for, which was, that the next day at night she would cause him to come into her warderobe, which was adioyning to the Chamber of his Lady, to the ende that when her maydes were a bed, he might repaire to the place where he might easely visite his maistresse, and say vnto her what he thought good.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
chained_bear commented on the word warderobe
see comments on werderobe.
Actually... I wonder if this is a variation of garderobe, which was a medieval name for... uh... kind of ... water closet.
December 1, 2007
dimã©lion commented on the word warderobe
in response to chained_bear, the Oxford dictionary says it is indeed a variant of "garderobe".
November 21, 2008
dimã©lion commented on the word warderobe
and this word, "warderobe", is apparently Old Northern French.
November 21, 2008
reesetee commented on the word warderobe
*looking suspiciously at own clothing*
November 21, 2008