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armoury

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Etymology

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From Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye, from Anglo-Norman armurrie, from armure (“arms, armor”) + -ie (“-y”). By surface analysis, armour +‎ -y.

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

  1. (also figurative) A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
    • 2026 March 18, Peter Plisner, “Tackling broken rails: the skills and technology improving safety”, in RAIL, number 1057, pages 30-31:
      Finally, there's also operational damage through impact energy from wheels hitting the rail. For that, Network Rail has another weapon in its armoury in the form of the Plain Line Pattern Recognition (PLPR) trains. These use geometry measurement and imaging to detect abnormalities such as missing or defective fastenings.
  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.
  6. (rare, collective noun) A family or group of aardvarks.
    • 2025, Robyn Smythe, Arthur the Aardvark: The Story of a True Warrior‎[1]:
      A family of aardvarks, or an armoury of aardvarks, were regular visitors to the waterhole
    • 2025, Anna McConachie, “New digs for pair of burrowing aardvarks”, in Bedford Today‎[2]:
      Jonathan Risbridger, senior zookeeper at Whipsnade Zoo, said: “Nacho and Tafari are a great addition to our family, or armoury, of aardvarks here at Whipsnade Zoo. Nacho is actually returning to Whipsnade, as she was one the first ever aardvarks to live at our zoo”.
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