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equipage |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. --Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. --Pope. 2. Retinue; train; suite. --Swift. 3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. --W. Irving. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: equipage n 1: the equipment and supplies of a military force [syn: {materiel}] 2: a wheeled vehicle drawn by horses [syn: {carriage}, {rig}]
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