accouter
Pronunciations (2)
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/əˈku tɚ/
Pronunciation notes
- US
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əˈku tɚ
Pronunciation notes
- US
Verb
To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service.
Usage- Transitive
- Related words
- Examples
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[…] Ile hold thee any wager / When we are both accoutered like yong men, / Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, […]
Vpon the word, / Accoutred as I was, I plunged in,
More examples (3)
For this, in rags accoutered, are they seen, / And made the may-game of the public spleen?
Both while he trod the earth in humblest guise / Accoutred with his burthen and his staff;
There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed.
Verb
provide with military equipment
- Synonyms
Word forms
accoutersaccouteringaccouteredaccouteredaccoutre