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==English==
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===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|en|armoir||dated}}

===Etymology===
{{ubor|en|frm|armoire}}. {{doublet|en|ambry|armarium|almirah}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ɑːmˈwɑː/|a=UK}}
* {{IPA|en|/ɑɹmˈwɑɹ/|a=US}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-armoire.oga|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɑː(ɹ)|s=2}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# A type of [[cupboard]], [[cabinet]], or [[wardrobe]], originally used for storing weapons.
#* {{RQ:Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing|chapter=VIII|passage=The furnishing of this Blue Room was solid and Victorian, it having been the GHQ of my Uncle Tom's late father, who liked things substantial. There was a four-poster bed, a chunky dressing-table, a massive writing table, divers chairs, pictures on the walls of fellows in cocked hats bending over females in muslin and ringlets and over at the far side a cupboard or '''<!--book has italic-->''armoire''''' in which you could have hidden a dozen corpses.}}
#* {{RQ:Ellis American Psycho|page=244|passage=Downing the drink in a single gulp, I move over to the Anatolian white-oak '''armoire''' where I keep a brand-new nail gun I bought last week at a hardware store near my office in Wall Street.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|passage=She got up without lighting the lamp, felt around in the '''armoire''' for an archaic revolver that no one had fired since the War of a Thousand Days, and located in the darkness not only the place where the door was but also the exact height of the lock.|by=Gabriel García Márquez|title=w:Living to Tell the Tale|chapter=1|year=2002|author=Edith Grossman, transl.}}

====Derived terms====
* [[jewellery armoire]]

==French==

===Etymology===
{{inh+|fr|fro|armaire}}, {{m|fro|aumaire}}, borrowed from {{der|fr|la|armārium}}, from {{m|la|arma||weapons, tools}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}
* {{audio|fr|Fr-armoire.ogg}}

===Noun===
{{fr-noun|f}}

# [[wardrobe]] (''British''), [[closet]] (''US''), a [[cabinet]], taller than it is wide, for storing things.<!--Acc. to the Robert & Collins dict.-->
# {{lb|fr|colloquial}} a very stocky man

====Derived terms====
* {{l|fr|armoire à glace}}
* {{l|fr|armoire à pharmacie}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|lou|larmwa}} {{q|via {{m|fr|[[le]] armoire}}}}
* {{desc|crs|larmwar}} {{q|via {{m|fr|[[le]] armoire}}}}
* {{desc|bor=1|en|armoire}}
* {{desc|scn|armuarra|muarra}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}

{{C|fr|Furniture}}