impedimenta

noun

1. Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.

   “On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.”

   “Dashing back to my compartment, I grabbed my impedimenta - what my companion thought of the maniac who alighted at a station only half-way to the first booked stop I don't know ! - got out, hurried under the subway, and was into my 10.45 comfortably before its departure.”

   “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.”

   “There was no sign of piano, organ, hymn-books, church programs—the familiar ecclesiastical impedimenta we saw every Sunday.”

2. (form-of, plural)plural of impedimentum