She updated her ____ with new dresses for the party season.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She decided to clear out her ____ and donate any several old clothes she no longer wore to a local charity today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wer-
Proto-Indo-European *wor-tús
Proto-Germanic *warduz
Proto-Germanic *-āną
Proto-Germanic *wardō
Proto-Germanic *-āną
Proto-Germanic *wardāną
Frankish *wardēnbor.
Early Medieval Latin wardō
Old Northern French warder
Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-?
Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-der.
Proto-Germanic
Frankish *roubader.
Old French robe
Old Northern French warderoubebor.
Middle English warderobe
English wardrobe
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. Doublet of garderobe. By surface analysis, ward + robe.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe."
— 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
"[…] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing."
— 1954 December 11, Billboard, page 20:
"Wardrobing, the act of buying a nice piece of clothing, wearing it once, and returning it, is an $8.8 billion problem for the retail industry."
— 2015, Adam Toporek, Be Your Customer's Hero, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 195:
"Wardrobing is where people will order the same thing in three different sizes to see which one fits and then they return the other two, not realizing that those other two most of the time don’t go back on that retailer’s shelves."
— 2022 January 28, Katie Tarasov, “What really happens to Amazon returns”, in CNBC: