Meaning of Equipage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
   uncountable
2. A type of horse-drawn carriage.
   countable, uncountable
3. The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.
   countable, uncountable
4. Military dress; uniform, armour, etc.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee vvith my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage and Appurtenances; […]”

“At this moment the carriage turned into the Prado; a thousand magnificent equipages, with plumed horses, superb caparisons, and beautiful women bowing to the cavaliers, who stood for a moment on the foot-board, and then bowed their adieus to the “ladies of their love,” passed before our eyes.”

“For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.”

“Miserable and desponding he returned to his home; while Oriana, in again taking leave of her family, was borne back in her aunt's equipage to the splendours of the Park.”

“Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a compleat French-man at armes, with all his bards.”

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