What is "accoutrement"

Usage examples of "accoutrement".

Anna had much on her mind and none of it had to do with the accoutrements of dead soldiers, but as she knew the topic she would introduce was going to be painful, she gave Barth her attention.

They all left, with much scraping of benches and shuffling of feet and clinking of swords and other accoutrements, until only McMurphy, Mick, and Bloody Bob were left with Shannon and Brewster in the hall.

She still liked to play Barbies, but she knew that her mom and dad bought them at the Toys R Us in Glen Burnie, and assembled the accoutrements on Christmas Eve, a process his father truly loved, much as he might bitch about it.

It was hunted for the sake of its arms and accoutrements from hill to hill, from ravine to ravine, up and down the dried beds of rivers and round the shoulders of bluffs, till it disappeared as water sinks in the sand--this officerless, rebel regiment.

Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock investigate in a typically highly populated, deviously plotted adventure with the usual accoutrements: a glossary of terms, a list of characters, two maps, and an historical note.

No provision, however, was made for clothes, arms, accoutrements, and pay: had regulations been made for these purposes, the act would have become a money-bill, in which the lords could have made no amendment: in order, therefore, to prevent any difference between the two houses, on a dispute of privileges not yet determined, and that the house of peers might make what amendments they should think expedient, the commons left the expense of the militia to be regulated in a subsequent bill, during the following session, when they could, with more certainty, compute what sum would be necessary for these purposes.

Jerry and his accoutrements but two of the spears, and the cord with which the bushranger had bound him.

The accoutrements were exceptional, but the centerpieces, which came from the Castleton collection of prized ceramics, were extraordinary: elaborate covered urns from the famous Sivres factory, a Vincennes demi-bouteille, Meissen clocks and vases, Staffordshire animals, Frankenthal figures, Wedgwood luster bowls, Spode jars.

For a few minutes I could hear the clanking of accoutrements, but even this grew fainter and fainter, until at last the silence was as complete as the darkness.

They were walking slowly side by side, glittering in the sun with their shining hats, their yellow accoutrements and their metal buttons, as if to frighten evildoers, and to put them to flight at a distance.

Karsa checked his supplies one last time, the foodstuffs and waterskins, the additional items and accoutrements necessary for survival in a hot, arid land.

Major Tweedy, moustached like Turko the terrible, in bearskin cap with hackleplume and accoutrements, with epaulettes, gilt chevrons and sabretaches, his breast bright with medals, toes the line.

Had not Buke alerted us, we might well have sustained even further damage to our accoutrements, not to mention our less capable companions.

I'd paint them dark grey with pinstripes on the outside and the interiors could be wood-paneled and clublike with oriental carpets, leather chairs, and of course all the office accoutrements, a desk, a fax, an assistant.

He found it tenanted by a half-dozen fellows of very rude aspect, all armed and bearing an odd resemblance in air and accoutrements to the braves he had seen at Condillac the day before.