armoury
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- armory (US)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye, from Anglo-Norman armurrie, from armure (“arms, armor”) + -ie (“-y”). By surface analysis, armour + -y.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹməɹi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːməɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]armoury (countable and uncountable, plural armouries) (British spelling)
- A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
- A collection of weapons and materiel.
- A place where arms are made.
- The manufacture of armour and arms; arming, armouring.
- 1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, page 530:
- (1.) *Armorist. n. s. [from armour.] A person skilled in heraldry. Dict. (2.) Armorist, signifies also a person skilled in armory.
- 2020 April 28, Isabel Boavida, Hervé Pennec, Manuel João Ramos, Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622 / Volume II, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
- He replied that he intended to pass through there to his own land, since he could not go by sea {because of the Turks}, and the ambassador was going in order, if he could find a way, to bring back some craftsmen skilled in armoury and […]
- Heraldry.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]heraldry
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place where arms are kept, an arsenal
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