impedimenta
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪmˌpɛdɪˈmɛntə/
- Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.
- 1892, Julian Ralph, On Canada's Frontier
- On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.
- 1949: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p.20
- Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.
- 1892, Julian Ralph, On Canada's Frontier
- plural form of impedimentum
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