equipage
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Noun (2)
- equipment and supplies of a military forceSynonyms: materielType of equipmentKinds baggage, marching order
- a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horsesSynonyms: carriagerigType of horse-drawn vehicleKinds buggy, buckboard, troika, chariot, chaise, coach, hackney, cab, caroche, barouche +11 moreParts rumble, axletree
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Eq′ui·page (?; 48), noun
Origin: F. équipage, fr. équiper. See Equip.
1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire.
Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage.— John Evelyn
First strip off all her equipage of Pride.— Alexander Pope
2. Retinue; train; suite. Jonathan Swift
3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out.
The rumbling equipages of fashion... were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam.— Washington Irving
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54