Crossword clues for accoutrements
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accouterments \Ac*cou"ter*ments\, Accoutrements \Ac*cou"tre*ments\, n. pl. [F. accoutrement, earlier also accoustrement, earlier also accoustrement. See Accouter.] Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers.
How gay with all the accouterments of war!
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Middle French accoustrement (Modern French accoutrement), from accoustrer probably from Old French acostrer "arrange," originally "sew up" (see accouter)
Wiktionary
n. (context more common in the plural English) (plural of accoutrement English)
Wikipedia
Accoutrements are the personal/individual equipment of service people such as soldiers, sailors, police and firemen and employees of some private organizations such as security guards, other than their basic uniform and weapons.
Accoutrements can be intended for field, garrison or ceremonial purposes. Most accoutrements for field use are purely practical in nature.
Ceremonial accoutrements may no longer have a practical purpose in modern operations but may be retained to maintain a tradition. Garrison accoutrements will vary in their usefulness and include both practical and ceremonial/traditional items.
Some accoutrements such as lanyards, have both a traditional/ceremonial and a practical purpose. In these cases a different item may be worn in garrison or ceremonial occasions than that used in the field. For example, in the Australian army different corps and units wear different coloured lanyards for service or ceremonial dress, but universally use drab natural fibre coloured lanyards for pistol retention in the field.
Usage examples of "accoutrements".
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.
Indeed, but for the formality of the thing, he might have spared himself the question, for lounging about the courtyard were a score of stalwart weather-tanned fellows, whose air and accoutrements proclaimed them soldiers.
Hymneth the Possessed had chosen to dress in armor and accoutrements that were celebratory instead of intimidating.
Their saddles and other accoutrements were frankly theatrical, and would have been at once the delight of an artist and the despair of a saddler.
The white linen head coverings of the Guardia Civil and the glint of the sun on their accoutrements showed at a glance that this was not a summons to be disregarded.
Tenthag saw nothing special about the accoutrements of the briqs and junqsindeed, they could have been matched by any kyq from his youth, and the latter would have been set about with useful gorborangs, as wellbut now was no time to be patronizing.
Holmes stole into the next cramped room, which was filled with wartime accoutrements, carefully arranged and displayed, but one object drew his attention immediately: a saber, dangling from the wall.
They were both women who attracted lascivious glances from the ship's officers, they shared a fascination in the feminine accoutrements of clothes and cosmetics, men and intrigue, and they were both ambitious to succeed in society.