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  • noun Plural form of armure.

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Examples

  • And the wommen maken alle thinges and alle maner mysteres and craftes; as of clothes, botes and other thinges; and thei dryven cartes, plowes and waynes and chariottes; and thei maken houses and alle maner of mysteres, out taken bowes and arwes and armures, that men maken.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And the wommen maken alle thinges and alle maner mysteres and craftes; as of clothes, botes and other thinges; and thei dryven cartes, plowes and waynes and chariottes; and thei maken houses and alle maner of mysteres, out taken bowes and arwes and armures, that men maken.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • It was the sign of a _marchand des armures_, and, having provided myself with those persuasive arguments, a _sergent-de-ville_ and a _gendarme_, I entered.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

  • The _marchand des armures_ stood petrified and aghast.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

  • Christianisme 'et les' Martyrs 'ont puissamment contribué à detérminer, fait dériver les imaginations vers les choses gothiques; volontiers, l'esprit français se retourne alors vers le passé comme vers la seule source de poésie; et voici qu'un étranger vient se faire son guide et fait miroiter, devant tous les yeux éblouis, la fantasmagorie du moyen âge, donjons et créneaux, cuirasses et belles armures, haquenées et palefrois, chevaliers resplendissants et mignonnes et délicates chatelaines ....

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

  • G. was doubtless already within, and I thought of the marchand des armures 'exclamation, "Queen of Heaven, Monsieur! how shall I meet him!"

    In a Cellar 1859

  • The marchand des armures stood petrified and aghast.

    In a Cellar 1859

  • It was the sign of a marchand des armures, and, having provided myself with those persuasive arguments a sergent-de-ville and a gendarme, I entered.

    In a Cellar 1859

  • Chaque faction a retrouvé sa région d'origine et les combattants d'hier ont tous rangé leurs armures et revêtu les habits de citoyens paisibles.

    ~ listen the world ~ 2008

  • _marchand des armures'_ exclamation, "Queen of Heaven, Monsieur! how shall I meet him!"

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

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