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Armoured vs Arboured - What's the difference?

armoured | arboured |

As adjectives the difference between armoured and arboured

is that armoured is possessing armour while arboured is containing or situated close to trees.

As a verb armoured

is past tense of armour.

armoured

English

Alternative forms

* armored (US)

Adjective

(head)
  • Possessing armour.
    • The armoured vehicle rolled into the city
  • (military) Equipped with armoured vehicles.
    • armoured unit, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

    Synonyms

    * (possessing armour) mailed * (military) mechanized, tank

    Verb

    (head)
  • (armour)

    • arboured

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
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    • Its tower-like bulk of a bole mounted into the arboured gloom
  • * 2010 , Martin Dunford, The Rough Guide to Italy , Rough Guides (2011), ISBN 9781405389228, 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.
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