Indeed, that was as it should be; for she was only an appurtenance of my mattress, or self-acting bedstead on four castors.
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Appurtenance
Synonyms for "appurtenance" (117 found)
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extensionextraextrapolationfacilityfactorfacultyfeaturefixingsfixturefurnishingsfurnituregearhappenstanceinalienable rightincidentalincreaseincrementinessentialingredientintegrant
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interestitemmakingsmere chancenatural rightnonessentialnot-selfoffshoototherpartpart and parcelpendantpowerprerogativeprescriptionpresumptive rightpretensepretensionproper claimproperty rightreinforcementrightsecondaryside effectside issuespecialtysubsidiarysuperadditionsupplementtailpiecetitleundergirdingunessentialvested interestvested right
Noun(3 words)
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34 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- придатък noun (appendage added to something else)
Dutch
1 entries- bijbehoren noun (appendage added to something else)
Finnish
3 entries- apuväline noun (equipment for some specific task)
- liite noun (appendage added to something else)
- lisäosa noun (appendage added to something else)
German
4 entries- Anhang noun (appendage added to something else)
- Anhängsel noun (appendage added to something else)
- Ausrüstung noun (equipment for some specific task)
- Ausrüstungsgegenstand noun (equipment for some specific task)
Hungarian
4 entries- felszerelés noun (equipment for some specific task)
- hozzávaló noun (equipment for some specific task)
- kellék noun (equipment for some specific task)
- szolgalom noun ((law) minor property that passes with the main property)
Macedonian
3 entries- до́даток noun (appendage added to something else)
- о́према noun (equipment for some specific task)
- при́бор noun (equipment for some specific task)
Portuguese
1 entries- apetrechos noun (equipment for some specific task)
Romanian
2 entries- anexă noun (appendage added to something else)
- apendice noun (appendage added to something else)
Russian
1 entries- снаряжение noun (equipment for some specific task)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pribor noun (equipment for some specific task)
- prinadležnost noun (appendage added to something else)
- prinadležnost noun (thing to which another pertains)
- pripadnost noun (thing to which another pertains)
Spanish
2 entries- aparejos noun (equipment for some specific task)
- pertrechos noun (equipment for some specific task)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
The youngsters, not immediately within sight, seemed rather bright and desirable appurtenances than otherwise; the incidents of daily life were not without humorousness and jollity in their aspect there.
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Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee vvith my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage and Appurtenances; […]
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In the case of the urban consumer of nature writing, of course, the mud is to be hosed off one's mental Range Rover immediately one lifts one's eyes from the page and gives silent thanks for the civilised appurtenances of hot yoga and flat whites.
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