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An armoire is a tall, heavy piece of furniture with doors — and sometimes shelves or a rail inside — that you hang clothes in. English borrowed the word from French and kept the French look, so it feels a little grand or old-fashioned. People use it when the piece is something you notice: wood, perhaps a mirror, more “furniture” than a plain closet. In everyday American English many people just say wardrobe or closet; armoire turns up in shops, hotels, and writing about antiques. Though actually, it is still just a for clothes, not a special machine. It is not a kitchen for dishes, even if older related words once meant “a place to keep things.”
衣櫥、衣櫃（偏華麗或古董感的那種，法語借詞）
組成Borrowed whole from Middle French armoire. Doublet of ambry, armarium, and almirah — the same older cupboard-word, different paths into English.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
armoirenoun/ɑːmˈwɑː/
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A type of cupboard, cabinet, or wardrobe, originally used for storing weapons.
- 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.
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。