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.

What does Garderobe mean?

1 : a wardrobe or its contents. 2 : a private room : bedroom.

How did a garderobe work?

During the Middle Ages, rich people built toilets called 'garderobes' jutting out of the sides of their castles. A hole in the bottom let everything just drop into a pit or the moat. ... Not everyone lived in castles - poor people lived in huts and would have used dirty pits like this for toilets.