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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.
The English word furniture is derived from the French word fourniture, [2] the noun form of fournir, which means to supply or provide. [3] Thus fourniture in French means supplies or provisions. [4]
Laylah Ali Othman (born January 29, 1986) is a Nigerian interior designer, writer and reality TV presenter as well as business woman, [1] who is best known for selling home furnishings such as chairs and beds, [2] [3] she is also known as the owner of a publishing company called L magazine, and it presents a program called Voices of the Youth.
A typical western bedroom contains as bedroom furniture one or two beds, a clothes closet, and bedside table and dressing table, both of which usually contain drawers. Except in bungalows , ranch style homes , ground floor apartments , or one-storey motels , bedrooms are usually on one of the floors of a dwelling that is above ground level.
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 ...
Nigeria has produced many fashion designers. Shade Thomas (later Thomas-Fahm) became Nigeria's first widely recognized fashion designer. After studying fashion design in England in the 1950s, prior to Nigerian independence, she set up a shop at the Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos and a garment factory at the Yaba Industrial Estate. Specializing ...
However, The Sixth Axis awarded The Wardrobe a more negative score of 4 out of 10, with criticism being directed at the plot, puzzles, lack of clues, and the lack of an autosave feature. They concluded their review by saying ‘ The Wardrobe had the scope to be better, but a lacklustre plot and strange puzzle design make its hard to recommend ...