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What (who) is garderobe - definition
ROOM IN MEDIEVAL CASTLES, USUALLY FOR TOILET
Privy shaft; Garderobe tower; Garderobes
![The garderobe at [[Peveril Castle]], [[Derbyshire]], England](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Garderobe, Peveril Castle, Derbyshire.jpg?width=200 "The garderobe at [[Peveril Castle]], [[Derbyshire]], England")
![Interior of a late 13th-century garderobe at [[Chirk Castle]] in Wales.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GarderobeChirkCastle.jpg?width=200 "Interior of a late 13th-century garderobe at [[Chirk Castle]] in Wales.")
garderobe
['g?:dr??b]
¦ noun
1. a toilet in a medieval building.
2. a wardrobe or storeroom in a medieval building.
Origin
ME: Fr., from garder 'to keep' + robe 'robe, dress'; cf. wardrobe.
Garderobe
Garderobe is a historic term for a room in a medieval castle. The Oxford English Dictionary gives as its first meaning a store-room for valuables, but also acknowledges "by extension, a private room, a bed-chamber; also a privy".
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Garderobe
Garderobe is a historic term for a room in a medieval castle. The Oxford English Dictionary gives as its first meaning a store-room for valuables, but also acknowledges "by extension, a private room, a bed-chamber; also a privy".
The word derives from the French garde de robes, meaning "robes (or clothing) protector": thus, a closet or a toilet seat that would tend to prevent clothing from getting soiled.
Its most common use now is as a term for a castle toilet.
