Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An accessory item of equipment or dress.
- noun Military equipment other than uniforms and weapons.
- noun Outward forms of recognition; trappings.
- noun Archaic The act of accoutring.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Personal vestment or clothing; equipment or furnishing in general; array; apparel.
- noun plural Dress in relation to its component parts; equipage; trappings; specifically, the equipments of a soldier except arms and clothing; equipage for military service. See
equipage .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an item of clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of one's main clothing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
accoutering . - noun An article of clothing or
equipment , in particular when used as anaccessory . - noun
apparatus needed for atask orjourney . - noun military
Equipment other thanweapons anduniform . - noun
trappings . - noun An identifying yet
superficial characteristic.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing
Etymologies
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Examples
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The result was that in the end the Valiant Soldier, of the Christian army, was distinguished by no peculiarity of accoutrement from the Turkish Knight; and what was worse, on a casual view Saint George himself might be mistaken for his deadly enemy, the Saracen.
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Undoubtedly his most distinguishing artistic trait, Okazaki's graphic style is a peculiar syncretism of cultural and stylistic elements from the East and West that favors funky portmanteaus like a hip hoppish samurai, cybernetic villains decked out in Japanese accoutrement, a seasonal matsuri float carrying a DJ atop a massive PA.
Anime Nano! 2008
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Undoubtedly his most distinguishing artistic trait, Okazaki's graphic style is a peculiar syncretism of cultural and stylistic elements from the East and West that favors funky portmanteaus like a hip hoppish samurai, cybernetic villains decked out in Japanese accoutrement, a seasonal matsuri float carrying a DJ atop a massive PA.
THAT Animeblog 2008
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Every building, road, tree and "accoutrement" pieces depicted in these pictures were made by Herb.
Archive 2007-12-01 Der Alte Fritz 2007
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Why pollute the truly urban with "resort chic" accoutrement?
Laura L.M. Hill: When Did NY Become LA? Laura L.M. Hill 2011
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She does not write graphically about sex, but it is in the margins of her pages and her character's consciousness as she is on a crash collision course with womanhood and all its joys, accoutrement and heartaches.
Carole Mallory: Book Review: The End of Everything by Megan Abbott Carole Mallory 2011
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Was a second apartment an accoutrement of literary celebrity, or had the family carted its furniture and belongings into other rooms we couldn't see?
Sean Carman: Saint Christopher Sean Carman 2011
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She does not write graphically about sex, but it is in the margins of her pages and her character's consciousness as she is on a crash collision course with womanhood and all its joys, accoutrement and heartaches.
Carole Mallory: Book Review: The End of Everything by Megan Abbott Carole Mallory 2011
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Was a second apartment an accoutrement of literary celebrity, or had the family carted its furniture and belongings into other rooms we couldn't see?
Sean Carman: Saint Christopher Sean Carman 2011
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Why pollute the truly urban with "resort chic" accoutrement?
Laura L.M. Hill: When Did NY Become LA? Laura L.M. Hill 2011
taciturnyetprolix commented on the word accoutrement
Does anyone else use this word in the sense of the smaller components of some larger, inclusive whole?
May 27, 2008
asativum commented on the word accoutrement
I use it more as a synonym for accessory or accompaniment, but not exclusively in a sartorial sense. So a turkey dinner's accoutrements might include cranberry sauce and stuffing.
May 27, 2008
taciturnyetprolix commented on the word accoutrement
That was what I was thinking, thanks.
May 28, 2008