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wardrobe mistress
noun
- a woman in charge of keeping theatrical costumes cleaned, pressed, and in wearable condition.
wardrobe mistress
noun
- a person responsible for maintaining and sometimes making the costumes in a theatre
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wardrobe mistress1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
Some of the fancy things could be executed by a competent wardrobe mistress, if some one would give her the ideas.
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There was also a matter of twenty dollars or so still to be paid to the wardrobe mistress and her assistant.
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The stage costumes hung in neat ranks outside under the eye of the wardrobe mistress.
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The wardrobe mistress hurries from one to another, needle and thread in hand.
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In a less sloppily organized company I'd be called wardrobe mistress, I guess.
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