Accouter

//əˈku tɚ// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 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. 2
    provide with military equipment wordnet

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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