armoury

• armory (US)

From Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye, from Anglo-Norman armurrie, from armure (“arms, armor”) + -ie (“-y”).

armoury (countable and uncountable, plural armouries) (British spelling)

1. Heraldry
2. A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
3. A collection of weapons and materiel.
4. A place where arms are made.
5. The manufacture of armour and arms; arming, armouring.
   • 1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, page 530:

     (1.) *Armorist. n. s. [from armour.] A person skilled in heraldry. Dict. (2.) Armorist, signifies also a person skilled in armory.

   • 2020 April 28, Isabel Boavida; Hervé Pennec; Manuel João Ramos, Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622 / Volume II, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

     He replied that he intended to pass through there to his own land, since he could not go by sea {because of the Turks}, and the ambassador was going in order, if he could find a way, to bring back some craftsmen skilled in armoury and […]

• armourer