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paraphernalia
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paraphernalia \Par`a*pher*na"li*a\, n. pl. [LL. paraphernalia bona, fr. L. parapherna, pl., parapherna, Gr. ?; para` beside + ? a bride's dowry, fr. fe`rein to bring. See 1st Bear.]
(Law) Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.
Personal belongings; ornaments; finery; sundry objects carried about for personal convenience.
The appendages, apparatus, or equipment used in a particular activity; as, surveyors unloading their paraphernalia from a van.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "a woman's property besides her dowry," from Medieval Latin paraphernalia (short for paraphernalia bona "paraphernal goods"), neuter plural of paraphernalis (adj.), from Late Latin parapherna "a woman's property besides her dowry," from Greek parapherna, neuter plural, from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + pherne "dowry," related to pherein "to carry" (see infer). Meaning "equipment, apparatus" is first attested 1791, from notion of odds and ends.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pluralonly English) miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity; stuff. 2 (context archaic English) Things a woman owns, apart from her dowry.
WordNet
n. equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. [syn: gear, appurtenances]
Wikipedia
Paraphernalia most commonly refers to a group of apparatus, equipment, or furnishing used for a particular activity. For example, an avid sports fan may cover his walls with football and/or basketball paraphernalia.
Paraphernalia most commonly refers to a group of apparatus, equipment, or furnishing used for a particular activity.
Paraphernalia may also refer to:
- Drug paraphernalia, any equipment, product, or material that is used to consume or distribute drugs for recreational usage
- A variety of tools and artifacts considered collectively
- Memorabilia and other collectibles
- Regalia, the privileges and insignia, characteristic of a Sovereign or Emperor
- Paraphernalia (album), an album by Enuff Z'nuff
- Paraphernalia, a jazz group fronted by saxophonist-flautist Barbara Thompson
This record is one of a string of mid-career recordings by Chicago natives Enuff Z'Nuff. Paraphernalia is arguably heavier in nature than many of their previous recordings. This album is also notable for its guest appearances from other famous Chicago area musicians, including Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, James Young of Styx, and Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, all featured on lead guitar for several of the album's tracks.
A promotional video was shot for the single "Freak." The director of the video, comedian Matt Kissane, is also a Chicago resident. Clips from the "Freak" video were televised nationally on VH-1. The song "Ain't It Funny" also received national exposure with the band's live performance on The Jenny Jones Show."
The cover art of the U.S. version of the album is a homage to the rock band Queen's second album, " Queen II." The Japanese version of Paraphernalia (released earlier than the U.S. edition) features different artwork and fewer songs than its domestic counterpart. While promoting this record, the full band toured in Japan for the first time, where they have found some success over the years.
Usage examples of "paraphernalia".
I had told Aley to meet me in the store that sold the Disney paraphernalia.
She gave away boxes and framework and sweet bottles and all the paraphernalia that had gone to make up the shop, to the children and handymen around the doors, and most of the contents of the room she allotted to the various neighbours to collect when she was ready to go.
I dump my cloak and bag on the floor among the astrolabes, charts, test tubes, herbs, potions and books that form the standard paraphernalia of a working Sorcerer.
It was decked out with medical gear, urine and excreta reservoirs, decontamination kits, and testing paraphernalia.
The packing process afterward was delayed only briefly while Flax considered what, if any, magical paraphernalia he should take on the trip.
Spock was kneeling among stacks of microcircuits, wires, resistors, capacitors, and other antique electronic paraphernalia.
Lifts were then attached to the mid-point, the parrel fastened about the mast itself, and all that paraphernalia of cable, the stirrups, the lifts and braces, were rigged on one by one.
Albert Campion, private and unwilling investigator, supported, as well as the paraphernalia belonging to these gentlemen, thirty-seven ash trays, each inscribed with varying advertising matter, a polyanthus rosetree in a remarkable pot, a cracked bottle of solidified ink, and a Bible with a red marker.
All the rest of the paraphernalia of the camp, which Abu Batn had not men enough to transport, was heaped in a pile in the center of the clearing, and even as she looked she saw men setting torches to it.
Of the rest of Sario there was no sign, no paints, no brushes, no paraphernalia of his life and work.
I took it from the rack, double-checked to be certain it was the one I had saved and walked over to the hematology island where the blood counter and other paraphernalia of the hematology department lived.
Other unmistakable paraphernalia sat on tables and shelves: a large white and pink seashell, a slender glass vase holding one long stemmed red rose, an intricately carved wooden box, and a collection of small jadestone figurines.
The Marxian paraphernalia crowds three heavy volumes, so elaborate and difficult that socialists rarely read them.
They passed a steady line of roustabouts packing up the paraphernalia into train cars, carrying rolls of thick ropes over their shoulders or slung between two men, iron bars and beams and collapsed sections of cages, welding equipment, and piles of other stuff Peter was too tired to identify.
All the propaganda carried on to-day by the prophets of nature, the experiments in regeneration, the uncooked food, fresh-air cures, sun-bathing, and so on, the whole Rousseauian paraphernalia, had as its goal nothing but the dehumanization, the animalizing of man.