Paraphernalia
[,pærəfə'neɪlɪə] or ['pærəfə'nelɪə]
Definition
(n. pl.) Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.
(n. pl.) Appendages; ornaments; finery; equipments.
Edited by Bertram
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Appendages, ornaments, trappings, equipment.
Edited by Craig
Definition
n.pl. ornaments of dress of any kind: trappings: that which a bride brings over and above her dowry: the clothes jewels &c. which a wife possesses beyond her dowry in her own right.
Checker: Roy
Examples
- These beginnings and crudities are very remote from the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia and machinery with which the art is furnished to-day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Marxian paraphernalia crowds three heavy volumes, so elaborate and difficult that socialists rarely read them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- From this it will be seen that the locomotive had all the essential paraphernalia to make it LOOK like a steam locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With these conductors and pipes must also be furnished manholes, junction-boxes, connections, and a host of varied paraphernalia insuring perfect general distribution. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Especially was this the case with out of door work, which heretofore had involved the carrying along of much unwieldy and inconvenient paraphernalia. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Editor: Will