A place where weapons and military equipment are stored and maintained. Also refers to a collection of resources or methods available for use.
From Old French armerie, from arme meaning 'weapon' plus the suffix -ery denoting a place. The word comes from Latin arma meaning 'weapons, tools of war'.
The word 'armoury' has beautifully expanded beyond its military origins to describe any collection of tools or techniques - we now speak of an 'armoury of skills' or a 'rhetorical armoury.' This metaphorical evolution shows how language naturally borrows the concrete and familiar to express abstract concepts, making warfare terminology surprisingly common in everyday speech.
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