equipage
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈɛ.kwɪ.pɪdʒ/
Noun

equipage

  1. (uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
  2. (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.
  3. 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.
  4. The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.
Translations Translations
  • French: équipage
  • German: Equipage
  • Russian: экипа́ж
  • Spanish: carroza, carruaje de lujo
Verb

equipage (equipages, present participle equipaging; past and past participle equipaged)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To furnish with an equipage.



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