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Store room
"Garderobe" derives from the French word for "wardrobe", a lockable place where clothes and other items are stored
According to medieval architecture scholar Frank Bottomley, garderobes were:
Properly, not a latrine or privy but a small room or large cupboard, usually adjoining the chamber or solar and providing safe-keeping for valuable clothes and other possessions of price: cloth, jewels, spices, plate and money.[1]
Toilet
A garderobe is also a medieval or Renaissance toilet or a close stool.[2] In a medieval castle, a garderobe was usually a simple hole discharging to the outside into a cesspit (akin to a pit latrine) or the moat (like a fish pond toilet), depending on the structure of the building. Such toilets were often placed inside a small chamber, leading by association to the use of the term garderobe to describe the rooms. Many can still be seen in Norman and medieval castles and fortifications, for example at Bürresheim Castle in Germany, where three garderobes are still visible.[3] They became obsolete with the introduction of indoor plumbing.
A description of the garderobe at Donegal Castle indicates that while it was in use, it was believed that ammonia would protect visitors' coats and cloaks, particularly from fleas.[4]
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Bob Crane
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Bob Crane is a genius!
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Wayne Zuhl
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Bob Crane
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Missed that term but I do remember riparian rights lol.
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Michael Jacobs
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Tony and Suzanne Marri...
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No Idea! Im sure I coud cheat and read what Bob Crane said!
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Tony and Suzanne Marri...
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Bob Crane
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Bob Crane seems to have the answer. Go Bob Crane .
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Bob Crane
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Dirty clothes that are growing things
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Bob Crane
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A robe made out of garder belts?
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Wikipedia says: 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". Its most common use now is as a term for a castle toilet.
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Bob Crane
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It is where the king would lock the door and think about his next war.
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Bob Crane
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A wardrobe for storage cloths?
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Bob Crane
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its a term used for a special room , often for valuables, some called it that for a bathroom later... if your an architect and know this word your charging too much lol
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Bob Crane
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You really are into Castle's today!
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Bob Crane
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That's a German word having to do with "dressing", as in getting ready or what I'm wearing. If it's architectural, probably a stand alone closet as in an armoire?
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Bob Crane
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That would be a place where you could take off your robe and garter?
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Bob Crane
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Ok I need to look his one up also - stop it
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Tony and Suzanne Marri...
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It's a free-standing wardrobe or "closet" - didn't even have to look that one up; they are common in Europe.
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I see that Bob Crane did some research.
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Tony and Suzanne Marri...
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The word is also used in Russion language, usually apply to a wardrobe. I did pick up into search and it has many other meaning. The most unusual: ''also a medieval or Renaissance toilet or a close stool. ''
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Tony and Suzanne Marri...
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It could be a closet or a hole in the floor toilet.
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A robe to hide garders form the people looking at the home?
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Hmm dare I say "parked and reading"?
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I am not familiar with this architectural term.
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Or is it a fashion question ?
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Tony and Suzanne Marri...
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I beieve it is a decorative version of a backyard garden shed.
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Tony and Suzanne Marriott, Associate Brokers I don't have any idea. Hella M. Rothwell, Broker/Realtor® 's answer sounds like a good one.
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Never have heard the term! Can't wait for some answers!
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The term garderobe describes a place where clothes and other items are stored. In European public places, a garderobe denotes a cloakroom, wardrobe, alcove, or armoire used to temporarily store the coats and other possessions of visitors.