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Wardropar(e, -er(e, n. Also: wardroupar, -rober, wardraipper, -raipair, wairdropper. [ME and e.m.E. wardropere (a1400-50); Wardrop n.] An officer or a servant in the wardrobe of the royal or a noble house, passing into a personal name. b. Appar. = Wardrop n. 1, prob. erron. for wardrop.(1) c1420 Wynt. viii 2867.
Wardropere c1420 Wynt. viii 2877.
The sylvyr to the wardropare [C. wardropar] He gave a1500 Rauf C. 274.
The king buskit him sone with scant of squyary. Wachis and wardroparis all war away c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 101/1.
Of James Dog, kepair of the quenis wardrep … The wardraipper of Venus boure, To giff a doublett he is als doure As [etc.] c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 102/2.
Wardraipair 1581 Treas. Acc. MS 49(2)b.
Deliuerit to the maister wardropare 1612 Edinb. Marr. 283.
John Gray, wardroper 1667 Misc. Maitl. C. III 151.
Clerk of the wardrobs fee [£30] master of the wardrobs fee [£55 11 s. 2 d.]. Three wardrobers … each of them [£20](b) 1679 J. Somerville Mem. I 376.
John Tennent … a domestic and wairdropper to the king(2) 1473 Treas. Acc. I 30.
Deliuerit to Sandy Wardropare … iij quarteris of blak to fulfill furth the lynyng of the queynis govne 1473–4 Treas. Acc. I 34.
Fra Johne Patonsone … and deliuerit to Sandy Wardroupar and Caldwell iij elne of blacb. 1517 Treas. Acc. V 130 (see Wardrop n. 4).