armoury

English

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Etymology

From Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye, from Anglo-Norman armurrie, from armure (arms, armor) + -ie (-y).

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Noun

armoury (countable and uncountable, plural armouries) (British spelling)

  1. A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
  2. A collection of weapons and materiel.
  3. A place where arms are made.
  4. 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 []
  5. Heraldry.

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