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Other 1918 flu-era design changes include using subway tiles in bathrooms for easier cleanup and built-in closets to confine clothes away from people and eliminate dust-catching armoires.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2021

Gomez recommends doing the same at home, making sure to dust behind beds, sofas, curtains and any large armoires or case pieces.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2021

Seeing the NFL plan for an uncertain future with rote certainty is like watching passengers on the Titanic carefully unpack their bags and place their clothes into cabin armoires.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2020

One of these empty armoires stands flush against a white gallery wall, while an extended piece of drywall fuses the minimalist furniture into the cast-iron building.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2019

Behind him, confiscated treasures are crammed to the ceiling: rolled tapestries, grandfather clocks, armoires, and giant landscape paintings crazed with cracks.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr