• (America) IPA: /əˈku tɚ/

accouter (accouters, present participle accoutering; past and past participle accoutered)

1. (transitive) To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service

   Synonyms: equip, attire, array, Thesaurus:clothe

   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene iv], page 177 ↗, column 1:

     {...}} Ile hold thee any wager / When we are both accoutered like yong men, / Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, {{...}