equipage
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈɛ.kwɪ.pɪdʒ/
equipage
- (uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
- (obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour etc.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a compleat French-man at armes, with all his bards.
- A type of horse-drawn carriage.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 199:
- At this moment the carriage turned into the Prado; a thousand magnificent equipages, with plumed horses, superb caparisons, and beautiful women bowing to the cavaliers, who stood for a moment on the foot-board, and then bowed their adieus to the “ladies of their love,” passed before our eyes.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 199:
- The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.
- French: bagages, fourgons, train des équipages
- German: Ausrüstung
- Russian: снаряже́ние
- Spanish: bagaje, furgón, tren de equipajes
equipage (equipages, present participle equipaging; past and past participle equipaged)
- (transitive, obsolete) To furnish with an equipage.
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