armour

• armor (United States)

From Middle English armure, armour, armor, armeure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman armure, from Old French armeüre, from Latin armātūra.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.mə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɹ.mɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)

armour (countable and uncountable, plural armours)

1. (uncountable) A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
2. (uncountable) A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
3. (uncountable) Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
4. (countable) A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
5. (military, uncountable) A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
6. (hydrology, uncountable) The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.

• (body armour): body armour, body armour, mail, chain mail, plate, suit of armour, suit of armour
• (animal): horn, carapace, chitin
• (metal plate): armour plate, armour plate
• (military): mechanized, cavalry

armour (third-person singular simple present armours, present participle armouring, simple past and past participle armoured)

1. (transitive) To equip something with armour or a protective coating or hardening.
2. (transitive) To provide something with an analogous form of protection.

armour

1. Alternative form of armure

armour f (oblique plural armours, nominative singular armour, nominative plural armours)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of armure

   De rochez et chemyses cover ses armours

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