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accouterment

n. 1 The act of accoutering. 2 An article of clothing or equipment, in particular when used as an accessory. 3 (context pluralonly English) apparatus needed for a task or journey. 4 (context military pluralonly English) equipment other than weapons and uniform. 5 (context pluralonly English) trappings. 6 An identifying yet superficial characteristic.

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accouterment

n. clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing [syn: accessory, accoutrement]

Usage examples of "accouterment".

But their cries had not been entirely fruitless, for now I heard answering shouts and the footfalls of many men running and the clank of accouterments and the commands of officers.

The Official Airline Guide was a typical airline employee accouterment, a schedule for all airlines to all cities.

There was a quick motion among the Azweri and a rattle of accouterments as they readied their weapons.

A long carbine, in the shoulder belt completed the accouterments of the Patagonian.

The rear contained a yard, a side porch, a garage, and all the accouterments of a conventional frame house, including an ancient apple tree.

Official Staff Officer Compartment Accouterments, Grade Cheap, Type Mediocre, Quality Uncomfortable, As Per Regulations.

But now the Hyrkanians from the Paradise Garden were racing towards the tower too, their armor flashing and their accouterments jingling.

But this regiment of Germans, and another not completed regiment, called from the State generally, were as yet without arms, accouterments, or clothing.

Since armor and other knightly accouterments were not readily available in downtown Bern, he had to improvise with a little judicious pillaging.

Tall, bipedal, has a face that doesn't turn your stomach, two arms with hands and fingers, along with a few accouterments I don't recognize.

For all the richness of his accouterments, the ivory hilt of Attaper's sword showed the wear of real use.

That was his diminuitive blonde, she of the perky nose and accouterments.

While one of these loiterers showed the red skin and wild accouterments of a native of the woods, the other exhibited, through the mask of his rude and nearly savage equipments, the brighter, though sun-burned and long-faced complexion of one who might claim descent from a European parentage.

We don't want free markets, we want trade to be as difficult as possible and the more high tech and machined the object is the more we want to make it difficult to move it around, because what we must do -- and I'm not a luddite , I'm not anti-technology, I'm anti-materialism, we must dematerialise the accouterments of the culture.

Languid, heat-raddled ladies, small nucleuses about whom revolve a thousand accouterments: creams, ointments to grease themselves, coloring matter in phials black, pink, red, white, green, silver to change the color of hair, eyes, lips, nails, brows, lashes, lids.