"![Google Ngram showing case-insensitive comparison of terms ""closet"" and ""wardrobe"" from 1800 to 2000 in American English. ""Closet"" is consistently more common than ""wardrobe""; the ""closet"" curves shows a very jagged, very slight decline from around 0.00075% in the early 1800s to a low of just below 0.0004% in the mid-1960s, before beginning a steep and steady rise to a high of about 0.00085% in 2000. ""Wardrobe"" begins at just under 0.0002% in 1880, climbs up to a high of just over 0.0003% in the mid-1850s, then hovers drifts up and down between 0.0002% and 0.0003% for the rest of the chart."
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