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Garderobe is the French word for "wardrobe", a lockable place where clothes and other items are stored.According to medieval architecture scholar Frank Bottomley, garderobes were "Properly, not a latrine or privy but a small room or large cupboard, usually adjoining the chamber [bedroom] or solar [living room] and providing safe-keeping for valuable clothes and other possessions of price ...
A wardrobe, also called armoire or almirah, is a standing closet used for storing clothes.The earliest wardrobe was a chest, and it was not until some degree of luxury was attained in regal palaces and the castles of powerful nobles that separate accommodation was provided for the apparel of the great.
In the 1952 Flannery O'Connor novel Wise Blood, Hazel Motes leaves a note on his mother's abandoned "chifforobe" warning thieves will be found and killed. [7]In the song "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard", Tom Waits writes, "I come in on a night train, With an arm full of box cars, On the wings of a magpie, Cross a hooligan night, And I busted up a chifforobe, way out by the cocomo, Cooked up a ...
Since at least the early Middle Ages, robes have been worn as a sign of nobility.At first, these seem to have been bestowed on individuals by the monarch or feudal lord as a sign of special recognition; but in the 15th century the use of robes became formalised, with peers all wearing robes of the same design, though varied according to the rank of the wearer.
The djellaba or jillaba (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ l ɑː b ə /; Arabic: جلابة), also written gallabea, is a long, loose-fitting unisex outer robe or dress with full sleeves that is worn in the Maghreb region of North Africa. In central and eastern Algeria it is called qeššaba or qeššabiya.
A robe is a loose-fitting outer garment. [1] [2] Unlike garments described as capes or cloaks, robes usually have sleeves. The English word robe derives from Middle English robe ("garment"), borrowed from Old French robe ("booty, spoils"), itself taken from the Frankish word *rouba ("spoils, things stolen, clothes"), and is related to the word ...
The Will of King Eadred, AD 951–955, with bequests to hræglðene (robe-keepers) (15th-century copy, British Library Add MS 82931, ff. 22r–23r) [3]. In the Middle Ages persons of wealth and power often slept in a chamber (Latin camera), alongside which a secure room or wardrobe (garderoba) would be provided for storage of clothes and other valuables.
Robe is a town and fishing port located in the Limestone Coast of South Australia. The town's distinctive combination of historical buildings, ocean, fishing fleets, lakes and dense bush attracts many tourists. Robe lies on the southern shore of Guichen Bay, just off the Princes Highway. At the 2021 census, Robe had a population of 1252. [8]