accouter

verb
/əˈku tɚ/US

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.

  1. derived from con- — “together
  2. derived from cōnsuō
  3. derived from ad — “to
  4. derived from acconsūtūrāre
  5. derived from acoustrer
  6. borrowed from accoutrer

Definitions

  1. 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?

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