Definitions
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- adjective Supplied with essential equipments for a certain intention, particularly military.
- adjective Provided with vital supplies for a precise aim, more specifically for the armed forces.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
accoutre .
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- adjective provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military)
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Examples
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Now and then a servant girl, nicely but plainly dressed, and fully accoutred with stockings and shoes, would perform this duty; and twice or thrice I remember being admitted by
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The monk ordered his mule, and was about to take his leave; and the good dame was still delaying him with questions about the funeral, when a horseman, armed and accoutred, rode into the little court-yard which surrounded the Keep.
The Monastery 2008
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Burgundian yeomen, tall and active-looking men, ready mounted themselves, and holding two saddled horses — the one accoutred for war, the other a spirited jennet, for the purposes of the journey.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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Unless privately armed, however, the minstrel was ill-accoutred for any dangerous occupation.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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Meanwhile all was busy on our hills, and every man that had a sword or lance accoutred himself with it.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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Down went armed horse-down went accoutred knight-down went banner and bannerman — down went peaked boot and crowned helmet, and of those who fell not a man escaped with life.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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Nixon, out of caution perhaps to prevent escape, had muffled the extreme folds of the riding-skirt with which he was accoutred, around his ankles and under his feet, and there secured it with large corking-pins.
Redgauntlet 2008
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They were fully accoutred in excellent armour of polished steel, without any device by which they could be distinguished.
Quentin Durward 2008
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But two had riding furniture for the use of females — the one being accoutred with a side-saddle, the other with a pillion attached to the saddle.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Beneath one of these lay stretched something of a grey colour, which, as it drew itself together, exhibited the figure of a man sheathed in armour, but strangely accoutred, and in a manner so bizarre, as to indicate some of the wild fancies peculiar to the knights of that period.
Castle Dangerous 2008
chained_bear commented on the word accoutred
Usage on light horse.
October 10, 2008
frywater commented on the word accoutred
Not sure that wordnik comments are accoutred.
February 9, 2010