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Definition of Accoutred
1. Adjective. Provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military). "Properly accoutered for the trip"
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Similar to: Equipped, Equipt
Definition of Accoutred
1. Adjective. Supplied with essential equipments for a certain intention, particularly military. ¹
2. Adjective. Provided with vital supplies for a precise aim, more specifically for the armed forces. ¹
3. Verb. (past of accoutre) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Accoutred
1. accoutre [v] - See also: accoutre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Accoutred
Literary usage of Accoutred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"... re-assumed whiskers, and their pallid cheeks, thus accoutred, exhibited a
surprising compound of ghastliness and effeminacy.—The Balance, Hudson, NY, ..."
2. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"120 of the Scotch troop of guards, richly habited and accoutred, march't thro'
the citty, commanded by the earl of Crawford, and were viewed in Hide Park. ..."
3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"Barbed, accoutred, armed ; said of horses. (F. — Scand. ?) Also (more correctly),
barded. — F. bardé, ' barbed as a horse,' Cot. — F. barde, horse-armour,— ..."
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