different between armoured vs arboured

English

Alternative forms

• armored (US)

Verb

armoured

1. simple past tense and past participle of armour

Adjective

armoured (British spelling)

1. Possessing, wearing, or fitted out with armour.

   The armoured vehicles rolled into the city.
2. (military) Equipped with armoured vehicles.

   an armoured unit; the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

Synonyms

• (possessing armour): mailed
• (military): mechanized, tank

Translations

English

Etymology

arbour +? -ed

Adjective

arboured (not comparable)

1. Containing or situated close to trees.
   • 1905, C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson, My Friend the Chaffeur, A. L. Burt Company (1905), Chapter XVIII:

     […] but later she apologized to the quaint court-yard for her misunderstanding, and was more than tolerant of her vast bedroom draped with yellow satin, and opening on an arboured terrace worthy even of a Countess Dalmar.

   • Its tower-like bulk of a bole mounted into the arboured gloom […]

   • 2010, Martin Dunford, The Rough Guide to Italy, Rough Guides (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Take the little walkway back from the street and discover an arboured garden patio setting decorated with appealingly kitsch painted statues and coloured fairy lights.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:arboured.

Anagrams

• Aberdour