Equipage

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Equipage \Eq"ui*page\ (?; 48), n. [F. ['e]quipage, fr.
     ['e]quiper. See {Equip}.]
     1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental;
        especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel,
        fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the
        furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or


        a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for
        efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments;
        attire.
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              Did their exercises on horseback with noble
              equipage.                             --Evelyn.
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              First strip off all her equipage of Pride. --Pope.
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     2. Retinue; train; suite. --Swift.
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     3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that
        accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a
        showy turn-out.
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              The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown
              in the settlement of New Amsterdam.   --W. Irving.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  equipage
       n 1: equipment and supplies of a military force [syn: {materiel}]
       2: a vehicle with four wheels drawn by two or more horses [syn:
           {carriage}, {rig}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "equipage":
     accouterments, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances,
     armament, conveniences, duffel, equipment, facilities, facility,
     fittings, fixtures, four-in-hand, furnishings, furniture, gear,
     impedimenta, installations, kit, machinery, materiel, munition,
     munitions, outfit, pair, paraphernalia, plant, plumbing, randem,
     rig, rigging, span, spike, spike team, stock-in-trade, tackle,
     tandem, team, things, three-up, turnout, unicorn, utensils