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Accouter vs Accouterment - What's the difference?

accouter | accouterment |

As a verb accouter

is to furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array.

As a noun accouterment is

the act of accoutering.

accouter

English

Alternative forms

* (Commonwealth) accoutre

Verb

(en verb)
  • To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array.
  • * Both accoutred like young men. - Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, III-iv
  • * For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. -
  • * Accoutered with his burden and his staff. -

    • See also

    * accoutrements

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    * ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Verb

    (roa-jer-verb)
  • to lean upon one's elbows

    • accouterment

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (commonwealth) accoutrement

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of accoutering.
  • An article of clothing or equipment, in particular when used as an accessory.
  • (pluralonly) apparatus needed for a task or journey.
  • (military, pluralonly) Equipment other than weapons and uniform.
  • (pluralonly) trappings.
  • An identifying yet superficial characteristic.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments , seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).}}

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