Crossword clues for armoire
armoire
- Freestanding cupboard
- Fancy-sounding bedroom piece
- Clothing cupboard
- Clothes closet
- Capacious cupboard
- Where shirts and ties may be kept
- Wardrobe relative
- Unwearable wardrobe
- Tall cupboardlike structure
- Suit holder
- Spot for shirts and ties
- Plus-size wardrobe?
- Piece of hotel room furniture
- Ornate wardrobe cabinet
- Ornate wardrobe
- Large cupboard
- Ensemble's home, perhaps
- Elaborate wardrobe
- Clothing container
- Closet alternative
- Big wardrobe
- Big ornate cabinet
- Bedroom set piece
- Bedroom cabinet
- Fancy cabinet
- Wardrobe cabinet
- Bedroom furniture, perhaps
- Large wardrobe cabinet
- Movable cupboard
- Clothes holder
- Tall wardrobe
- Hotel room furniture
- Chamber piece
- Dresser alternative
- Bedroom piece
- A large wardrobe or cabinet
- Originally used for storing weapons
- Ornate cabinet
- Large, shelved wardrobe
- Wardrobe or cupboard
- More air circulating in wardrobe
- More air needs to circulate in cupboard
- Clothes cabinet
- Large wardrobe - more air
- Large cabinet
- Artist returned fabric to cabinet
- Standing closet
- Fancy wardrobe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 earlier was in English as ambry (late 14c.).
Wiktionary
n. A type of cupboard, cabinet, or wardrobe - originally used for storing weapons.
WordNet
n. a large wardrobe or cabinet; originally used for storing weapons
Wikipedia
This armoire, displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851, was designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–52) and made by JG Crace (1809–89). The shields along the top and the carved decorative motifs were drawn from medieval sources. The motifs include Crace's initials, a plummet (carpenter's tool) as an emblem of his honesty, and a compass to indicate his ability to keep within his estimates. Many designers of the Victorian period were inspired by the art of the Middle Ages, but Pugin was probably the greatest and most ardent exponent of the Gothic Revival style.
The cabinet was the grandest piece in the group of furniture designed by Pugin and made by Crace for the Medieval Court in the Great Exhibition of 1851. As Crace was a judge for Class XXVI (furniture) and the cabinet was exhibited in his name, it was not eligible for a medal.
A prolific designer, best remembered for his decoration of the Houses of Parliament, Pugin exhausted himself and died the year after this cupboard was made, aged only forty. The Victoria and Albert Museum bought the cupboard directly from the 1851 Exhibition, making it one of its earliest acquisitions.
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.