单词 | great wardrobe |
释义 | > as lemmasGreat Wardrobe Great Wardrobe n. [after post-classical Latin magna garderoba (from 13th cent. in British sources) and Anglo-Norman grant warderobe (early 14th cent. or earlier)] a department of the royal household responsible for supplying household goods and keeping accounts of the king’s privy purse; (also) the goods administered by this department considered collectively; a building or location used by this department for storage and administration. Cf. wardrobe n. 3, Master of the Great Wardrobe n. at master n.1 23a(f). historical after 18th cent.By the mid-13th cent. the Great Wardrobe had developed as the principal domestic financial office of the royal household responsible for supplying horses, food, drink, clothing, and other textiles to the household and to the army during times of war. At this date it was distinct from the household wardrobe, which held responsibility for the monarch's personal expenditure, although the two were subsequently merged and the wardrobe's function restricted to providing for the daily needs of the household. From the mid-14th to 17th cent. the Great Wardrobe had permanent premises near Blackfriars in London housing offices and storage for non-perishable goods. The building at Blackfriars was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and Great Wardrobe as a department abolished in 1782. ΚΠ 1439 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 114 (MED) The kyngges of armes, heraudes of the..reme, han had owte of her grete warderobe at every feste..here lyvere clothing. 1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 155 George Lufkyn Sergeant taillour of the grete Warderobe of the Kyng. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1561/2 Edward Walgraue knight, M. of oure greate wardrop. 1633 A. Munday et al. Stow's Surv. of London (new ed.) 404/1 Along till over against Puddle wharfe; and then North up by the great Wardrobe, to the West end of Carter lane. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 15 June (1970) I. 175 The King hath given him the place of the Great Wardrobe. 1755 H. Walpole Let. 29 Sept. (1906) II. 471 Sir Thomas Robinson is to return to the Great Wardrobe, with an additional pension on Ireland of 2000 l. a year. 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 44 What, Sir, is there in the office of the great wardrobe (which has the care of the king's furniture) that may not be executed by the lord chamberlain himself. 1914 W. G. Thomson Tapestry Weaving in Eng. xvii. 139 The arras-workers and tailors employed in the Great Wardrobe changed the scene of their labours to offices in Great Queen Street. 2008 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Jan. 27/1 Maria Hayward's splendid survey..brings to life the little-known institution of the Great Wardrobe. < as lemmas |
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