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.
- derived from cōnsuō
- derived from acconsūtūrāre
- derived from acoustrer
- borrowed from accoutrer
Definitions
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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