accouter
/əˈku tɚ/
accouter
English
Verb
Ad
Definition
To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service
Etymology
From Middle French accoutrer, from Old French acoustrer, from Vulgar Latin acconsūtūrāre (“to equip with clothes”), from Latin ad (“to”) + consūtūra (“sewing, clothes”), from Latin cōnsuō (“to sew together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + suō (“to sew”), first attested in the 1590s.
Example Sentences
- "[…] Ile hold thee any wager / When we are both accoutered like yong men, / Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, […]"
- "Vpon the word, / Accoutred as I was, I plunged in,"
- "For this, in rags accoutered, are they seen, / And made the may-game of the public spleen?"
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