floordrobe

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noun found in the wild

FLOOR·drobe

As first written
floordrobe
Stands today exactly as it was first set down.

The clothing stratum on the bedroom floor, used as storage.

Etymologyfloor + wardrobe. Wardrobe is Old French warderobe — guard-robe, a place to guard robes — so there is no morpheme -drobe. Ward, warden and guard are the same word, French having turned the Germanic w- into g-.

NoteAlready in dictionaries. A false seam that made it all the way in, which is the thesis of this project with an existence proof attached.

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