armoireとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• armoir (dated)

語源

Unadapted borrowing from Middle French armoire. Doublet of ambry, armarium, and almirah.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɑːmˈwɑː/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɑɹmˈwɑɹ/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)

名詞

armoire (plural armoires)

1. A type of cupboard, cabinet, or wardrobe, originally used for storing weapons.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 244:

     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.

   • 2002, Edith Grossman, transl., chapter 1, in Living to Tell the Tale, translation of original by Gabriel García Márquez:

     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.

   • 2010 December 9, Eve M. Kahn, “Exploring the Art of Louisiana Furniture”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 18 June 2020:

     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).

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