Meaning of Accoutrement | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A soldier's equipment, other than weapons and uniform.
   in-plural
2. An article of clothing or equipment, in particular when used as an accessory.
   in-plural
3. An identifying yet superficial characteristic.
   broadly
4. The act of accoutering; furnishing.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“Thus One / Jovial his Mate bespoke; O Friend, observe⟳, / How gay with all th'Accoutrements of War / The Britons come⟳, with Gold well fraught they come⟳”

“Three thousand six hundred of the best fighting men, with complete⟳ accoutrement; with cannoneers even, and cannon!”

“He [Manolo] was supposed to have⟳ left Spain while he was doing his military service, that is to say⟳ he was in the cavalry and he went across the border⟳, and sold his horse and his accoutrement, and so had enough money to come⟳ to Paris and be a sculptor.”

“To me ſhe's married, not vnto my cloathes: / Could I repaire what ſhe will weare in me, / As I can change⟳ theſe poore accoutrements, / 'Twere well for Kate, and better for my ſelfe.”

“While one of these loiterers showed the red skin and wild accouterments of a native of the woods, the other exhibited, […]”

“[H]is clothes, that is to say⟳, although they were of rich and sober fabric, were enormously too large for him in every measurement—the trousers hanging on his legs and rolled up to keep⟳ them from the ground, the waist of the coat below his haunches, and the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders. Strange to relate⟳, this ludicrous accoutrement was far from moving me to laughter.”

“And then from beyond the blank wall beside which I lay⟳ I heard the shuffling of feet, the snarling of grim beasts, the clank of metal accouterments, and the heavy breathing of a man.”

“A little ship, with oars and food / and little dishes, and all accoutrements / fitting and ready for the departing soul.”

“An essential accoutrement to participation in the daily grind⟳ of New York is a briefcase, and any self-respecting office slave eventually amasses a collection, from canvas bags to stylish leather-covered boxes.”

“They used rock'n'roll as a weapon against itself. With all instruments but guitar, bass, drums, and voice written off as effete, as elitist accoutrements of a professionalist cult of technique, it was music best suited to anger and frustration, […]”

“Partly for this reason⟳, the washing machine–like⟳ dishwashers after the mid-1970s–remained associated in commercial imagery with the domestic accoutrements of the affluent middle class.”

“It took me a second to identify⟳ what they were selling: accoutrements of mourning and/or ancestral worship⟳. Spirit money, yellow bills imprinted with gold foil, was tied with red string and shrink-wrapped in thick stacks.”

“Now that the face⟳ mask has become⟳ the essential accoutrement of our lives, the COVID pandemic has laid bare our fundamental need⟳ to see⟳ whole faces.”

“By the summer of 1964 they had achieved the bigger house on the better street and the familiar accouterments of a family on its way up: the $30,000 a year, the three children for the Christmas card, the picture window, the family room, […]”

“But musical ancestry aside, the influence⟳ to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe⟳ is loaded up with EDM accouterments, […]”

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