armoire

名词 n.
/ɑːmˈwɑː/    /ɑɹmˈwɑɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of cupboard, cabinet, or wardrobe, originally used for storing weapons.
    — 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 armoire in which you could have hidden a dozen corpses.

词形变化

armoires plural armoir alternative,dated

词源

Unadapted borrowing from Middle French armoire. Doublet of ambry, armarium, and almirah.
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