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ACCOUTRED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does accoutred mean?
• ACCOUTRED (adjective)
The adjective ACCOUTRED has 1 sense:
1. provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military)
Familiarity information: ACCOUTRED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military)
Synonyms:
accoutered; accoutred
Context example:
properly accoutered for the trip
Similar:
equipped; equipt (provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Context examples
He accoutred me with other necessaries, all new, which I aired for twenty-four hours before I would use them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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