Armoire

Quick meaning: Armoire is a noun meaning A type of cupboard, cabinet, or wardrobe, originally used for storing weapons.

Meaning

A type of cupboard, cabinet, or wardrobe, originally used for storing weapons.

Example Sentences

In 2003, at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, an 1810s mahogany armoire inlaid with ribbons and vines brought $140,000 (the presale estimate was $30,000 to $50,000).

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• armoires
• armoir

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wardrobe, armamentary, armoury, robe, garb, arm-chest.

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