Definition of "wardrope" [wardrope]

• A Middle English form of wardrobe. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When it appears okay to spend $150,000 on a wardrope for just one person, irregardless if it will be returned to charity, it shows how they mismanaged thier funds."
• "In the midst whereof was a litle house built of marble, as I take it, within which sate the grand Signor, according to whose commandement giuen there were gownes of cloth of gold brought out of the wardrope, and put vpon the ambassador and 7 of his gentlemen, the ambassador himselfe hauing 2, one of gold and the other of crimosin veluet, all the rest one a piece."
• "Wardroper is of course wardrobe keeper, but Chaucer uses wardrope (B. 1762) in the sense which Fr. garde-robe now usually has."