accoutrement

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing

Etymology

Probably partly from Middle French accoustrement, acoustrement, acoutrement (French accoutrement), from accoustrer, from Old French acostrer (“arrange, sew up”), and partly from accoutre + -ment. First attested in the 1540s.

In classic literature

Synonyms

accessory, accouterment

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