chairdrobe

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noun

A chair on which someone stores clothing that has been worn but which is not yet too dirty to wear again.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounchairdrobe (plural chairdrobes)

plural chairdrobes

  1. slangA chair on which someone stores clothing that has been worn but which is not yet too dirty to wear again.

    I noted the chairdrobe in almost every bedroom I entered thoughout university.

    2014, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton, Sheila Heti, Women in Clothes: Why We Wear What We Wear, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    And to the left of it, and near the foot of a bed, is the chairdrobe (the old and elegant chair too fragile for anyone to contemplate sitting on) and to his left; a small bedside chest of drawers.

    2013, Basil John, Sharing: An Imperfect Recollection, →ISBN

    This didn’t make it to the scholar’s mistress but I did find it on the chairdrobe, which gives you a little peek, if you ever wanted one, into the state of my bedroom.

    2013 September 5, Nicholas Lezard, “The shame of waking up in bed with the succubus Mistress Motivator”, in New Statesman

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ḱm̥-th₂der.?
  4. Proto-Hellenic*kətá
  5. Ancient Greekκατά (katá)
  6. Proto-Indo-European*sed-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*sedreh₂
  8. Proto-Hellenic*hédrā
  9. Ancient Greekἕδρα (hédra)
  10. Ancient Greekκᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)
  11. Latincathedra
  12. Old Frenchchaiere
  13. Middle Englishchayere
  14. Englishchair
  15. Proto-Indo-European*wer-
  16. Proto-Indo-European*wor-tús
  17. Proto-Germanic*warduz
  18. Proto-Germanic*wardō
  19. Proto-Germanic*wardāną
  20. Frankish*wardēn
  21. Early Medieval Latinwardō
  22. Old Northern Frenchwarder
  23. Proto-Indo-European*Hrew-?
  24. Proto-Indo-European*Hrewp-
  25. Frankish*rouba
  26. Old Frenchrobe
  27. Old Northern Frenchwarderoube
  28. Middle Englishwarderobe
  29. Englishwardrobe
  30. Englishchairdrobe

Blend of chair + wardrobe.

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APA

chairdrobe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chairdrobe

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