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Splendid array
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panoply
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A panoply is a complete suit of armour . The word represents the ancient Greek πανοπλία. The word πᾶν means " all ", and ὅπλον, " arms ". Thus "panoply" refers to the full armour of a hoplite or heavy-armed soldier, i.e. the shield , breastplate , helmet ...
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n. a complete and impressive array
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A splendid display of something. 2 (context by extension English) a collection or display of weaponry 3 ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories. 4 A complete set of armour. 5 (context by extension English) Something that covers and protects. ...
Usage examples of panoply.
Gamesmen are all panoplied up with their banners and helms, fringes flying and Heralds announcing them to all and his cousins.
Cut and see the bodies of those who had drowned in the attempt to swim the Banner, panoplied in sodden glory, dead.
And, ere the dawn, had wrought a panoply, The goodliest ever worn by mortal king.
Of my conflicting spirit, and I doffed the modest Christian weeds of charity And fit humility, and steeled myself In pagan panoply of stoicism And self-sufficing pride.
Dowered with a proconsular imperium, he enjoyed the sumptuous panoply of riding behind twelve crimson-clad, black-and-brass-belted lictors bearing the axes in their bundles of rods.
I looked up to see a Herald in full panoply and two people with blindfolds on.
In undimmed panoply, he had returned to his square city that lay within sight of the restless Smoking Crown volcano.
Their rag-tag panoply stood in considerable contrast with the fighters who marched around them.
The right of intervention figured prominently among the panoply of instruments accorded the United Nations by its Charter for maintaining international order, but the contemporary reconfiguration of this right represents a qualitative leap.
The entire panoply of movements and the entire emerging counterculture highlighted the social value of cooperation and communication.
The panoply of thermonuclear weapons, effectively gathered at the pinnacle of Empire, represents the continuous possibility of the destruction of life itself.
Exactly how much of human misery and despair was a natural consequence of sheer existence, and how much due to the interference of this vast panoply of unearthly parasitic beings?
Cody paid less attention to the panoply of sounds than he did to the shuddering stone.
At the head of the valley were ranked the soldiers of the archmage - trained units of men and demi-humans well armed with bows and arbalests, pole arms, and the full panoply of war.
Carina-Cygnus fade, the richly glowing colors tarnish, the Imperial panoply and pomp become worn and tattered.