Accoutrement
Definition
Additional items of dress or equipment carried or worn by a person for a particular activity.
Etymology
Probably partly from Middle French accoustrement, acoustrement, acoutrement (French accoutrement), from accoustrer, from Old French acostrer (“arrange, sew up”), and partly from accoutre + -ment. First attested in the 1540s.
Synonyms
equipment, gear, trappings, accessory
In a sentence
- His desk was covered in the accoutrements of a serious programmer.
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