1. medieval toilets or latrines, typically built into the walls of castles or fortified buildings
Usage: historical; architecture
2. wardrobes or rooms for storing clothes
Usage: archaic

Examples

• The castle’s garderobes were built over the moat for sanitation purposes.
• Medieval garderobes often had stone seats with holes cut through them.
• Archaeologists discovered well-preserved garderobes in the tower walls.
• The garderobes in noble houses were sometimes decorated with tapestries.
• Castle garderobes provided both privacy and a means of waste disposal.
• Some garderobes were connected to chutes that led directly outside the walls.