Meaning of Paraphernalia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity.
   plural, plural-only
2. Objects that a married woman owns, such as clothing and jewellery, apart from her dowry.
   archaic, plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“drug paraphernalia”

“He has an impressive collection of bicycling paraphernalia, but he doesn't ride very often anymore.”

“Then the boys arrived, with their camping paraphernalia, and in such bubbling good spirits that the girls were infected with them, for they had become rather lonesome of late.”

“People such as William James and the Stephensons (with whom he collaborated) may have been the movers and shakers of the early railways, but there was other, less exalted bods who constructed all the paraphernalia - including stations.”

“So she told her what her husband had said and sat with her awhile; but, presently, up came porters, who brought all her clothes and paraphernalia and what not else belonged to her of goods and vessels from her husband’s house and deposited them in that of her mother.”

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