wardmote, wardemoot, war demote

[Eng, ward, and mote (A. S. mót )=a meeting.] A meeting of the inhabitants of a ward. "For of the wardmote quest, he better can The mystery, than the Levitic law." Ben Jonson: Magnetic Lady, i. 1. ward-robe (1), *warde-robe, s. [O. Fr. warde . robe, garderobe , from warder to ward, keep, preserve, and robe a robe.] 1. A place in which wearing apparel is kept. Of ten applied to a piece of furniture, resembling a pre or cupboard, in which dre es are hung up. "Hereof be bags and quilts made, and those if they be laid in a wardrobe amongst clothes and apparell, causeth them to smell sweet." -P. Holland : Pliny , bk. xxi., ch. xix. 2. Wearing apparel in general. "I'll murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. I., v. 3. *3. The same as WARDROPE (q. v.). *ward-rōb-er, s. [Eng. wardrob ( e ); -er.] The keeper of a wardrobe. *ward-rope, *ward'-robe (2), subst . [Fr.garderobe.] A privy; a house of office; a water-closet. "In a wardrope they him threwe." Chaucer: C. Т., 13,502.