accouter

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Scrabble points: 12
Words With Friends: 15
Letters: 8

Pronunciation

/əˈku tɚ/ (US)

Definition of accouter

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(transitive)To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service

“[…] 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?”
“Both while he trod the earth in humblest guise / Accoutred with his burthen and his staff;”
“There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed.”

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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.