Accouter
//əˈku tɚ// verb
verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service transitive
"[…] Ile hold thee any wager / When we are both accoutered like yong men, / Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, […]"
- 2 provide with military equipment wordnet
Example
More examples"[…] Ile hold thee any wager / When we are both accoutered like yong men, / Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, […]"
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.
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