Equipage
['ekwɪpɪdʒ] or ['ɛkwəpɪdʒ]
Definition
(n.) Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire.
(n.) Retinue; train; suite.
(n.) A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out.
Typist: Sol
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Apparatus, equipment, furniture, baggage, effects, bag and baggage.[2]. Carriage, vehicle, turnout.[3]. Train, retinue, attendance, procession, suite.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Accoutrements, trappings, furniture, habiliments, apparatus, carriage,attendance, retinue
ANT:Dismantlement, unstateliness
Checker: Nanette
Examples
- His lordship was punctual and came to me in a very gay equipage. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- We had no transportation for our camp and garrison equipage, so wagons were hired for the occasion and on the 3d of July we started. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In my foolish mind, he had all the equipage of a thief too much in readiness, to be himself a true man. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was the equipage of our friend Miss Crawley, returning from Hants. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- An equipage for a Merdle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He stood for a moment at his own hall door, looking sedately at the elegant equipage as it rattled away. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In order that these visits might be visits of state, Mrs Boffin's equipage was ordered out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Sophia had at her command a very handsome equipage, in which we all three drove out on the day after my arrival. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- They sat in their equipage of state, with Mrs General on the box, for three weeks longer, and then he started for Florence to join Fanny. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Better far had it been the Old Gentleman, in full equipage of horns, hoofs, and tail. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Some little time being lost in seeking our own equipage, we reached the hotel perhaps about ten minutes after these strangers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There Mr Merdle insisted on alighting and going his way a-foot, and leaving his poor equipage at Mr Dorrit's disposition. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In like manner, it is the beauty or deformity of our person, houses, equipage, or furniture, by which we are rendered either vain or humble. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They may, perhaps, be considered as appendages, as a sort of splendid and shewy equipage of the empire. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Clothing and lodging, household furniture, and what is called equipage, are the principal objects of the greater part of those wants and fancies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- These equipages adorned the yard of the hotel at Martigny, on the return of the family from their mountain excursion. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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