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armoury
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armoury or US armory
Noun
pl -mouries or -mories
1. a secure storage place for weapons
2. military supplies
3. resources on which to draw: modern medicine has a large armoury of drugs for the treatment of mental illness

Armoury armour collectively; an armed force.
Example: the king had ordained his armour, knights ... all ready for to go, c. 1400.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.armouryarmoury - a collection of resources; "he dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer"
resourcefulness, imagination, resource - the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems; "a man of resource"
2.armouryarmoury - all the weapons and equipment that a country has
armament - weaponry used by military or naval force
3.armoury - a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms
military installation - any facility servicing military forces
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
4.armoury - a place where arms are manufactured
foundry, metalworks - factory where metal castings are produced

armoury U.S. armory
noun arsenal, magazine, ammunition dump, arms depot, ordnance depot
Translations
armoury (US), armory [ˈɑːmərɪ] narsenal m
armoury [ˈɑːmərɪ] armour n (storeroom) → Waffenlager nt
armoury, armory [ˈɑːmərɪ] narsenale m


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The architect has in his and her armouries such things as beauty, the bizarre, the shock of the new and spectacle.
Internment camps were established in such places as the old Fort Garry building in Winnipeg, the armouries in Niagara Falls, the Malleable Iron Works in Amherst, Nova Scotia, the National Parks building in Banff Castle, Alberta, and the militia camps in Petawawa, Ontario.
This extraordinary film, which friends here tell me was taken seriously in the United States of 1984, deals with the surprise invasion of a small Colorado town by Russians, Cubans and Nicaraguans, who interrupt a lesson on Genghis Khan in the schoolroom and encounter guerrilla resistance from a force of high-school kids who deploy the huge home armouries which they enjoy as part of the citizen's right to keep firearms.
 
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