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Fancy wardrobe
Answer for the clue "Fancy wardrobe ", 7 letters:
armoire
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Word definitions for armoire in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from French armoire , from Old French armarie (12c.) "cupboard, bookcase, reliquary," from Latin armarium "closet, chest, place for implements or tools," from arma "gear, tools, arms" (see arm (n.2)). Before being reborrowed from French, the word ...
Usage examples of armoire.
No trunk lid was left unraised, no armoire unopened, no curtain unshaken.
Sans repondre, Corysandre avait ouvert une autre armoire et elle avait atteint une robe blanche, une robe de petite fille.
Then he puts away his gear and unclips the sabre, setting it by the armoire.
She halted abruptly with mouth agape when she espied the apprentice lying sprawled in total oblivion near the armoire.
The wall opposite the bed was occupied by a nine-foot walnutand-gilt armoire and a wide carved fruitwood dresser inlaid with marquetry herbs and flowers.
The third carried furniture: Victorian love seats, armoires, beds with richly carved roses, dressers, commodes, pier mirrors, hatstands in walnut and oak.
Darsoss followed Kalinin along a narrow hallway to the room with its small daybed and ancient armoire.
Getting out of bed again, she walked over to a heavy Duncan Phyfe armoire and opened it.
Her hair jutted from her head in spikelike braids, each tied with a sliver of pink ribbon Julie had given her when she discovered the child admiring them in her armoire.
Beyond that, each corridor turns or branches into more corridors, armoires squeezed side by side, sideboards wedged together.
There were no ordinary chairs, but rather satin-covered chaises, and handcarved Roman couches, tables inlaid with mother-of-pearl, cabinets of rosewood, and armoires of ebony.
But the room was so jammed with breakfronts and escritoires and armoires and highboys and lowboys and Welsh dressers and wardrobes and grandfather clocks and so on, that I could not guess where the windows were.
In the distance beyond that is another wall of breakfronts and armoires.
Dressing quickly, they searched the bedroom and found a stash of flintlocks and pouches of black powder in a bottom drawer of the mahogany armoire.
From her presses and armoires, the Signora, seeing we had a taste for such things, brought out the feminine treasures of three generations, the silk and embroidered dresses of last century, the ribosas, the jewelry, the brilliant stuffs of China and Mexico, each article with a memory and a flavor.