- a variation of accouter.
accoutre
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of accoutre
C16: from Old French accoustrer to equip with clothing, ultimately related to Latin consuere to sew together
Vocabulary lists containing accoutre
Example Sentences
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Dietrich Intervenes Dietrich then donned his armour and was assisted to accoutre himself by Hildebrand.
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence
But hark you, madam; what be these brave blades That thus accoutre you?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
“Now put these heroes’ swords into their hands,” she commanded, “and accoutre them in their mail.”
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence
Richmond was to be evacuated during the night, during which I was to burn my ships, accoutre and provision my men, and join General Lee!
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
It is also written with a silent o, as in tour, croup, group, youth, wound, souvenir, surtout, cartouche, contour, amour, uncouth, accoutre, moustache, tambourine.
From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary E. Mann
A spare bathroom accoutred with a chandelier — Florida sun catching the crystals, shimmering across a spill of documents stamped "confidential."
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
Kids will continue to play and watch, drawn to the accoutred frowsty barn with its nets and stumps by family or school or the basic joy of bat and ball.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013
Envy, penniless, accoutred in dismal garb, ogles the fur coat of a wealthy Babbitt.
From Time Magazine Archive
The reporter was a man typical of his kind, a seedy fellow, drearily accoutred.
From Time Magazine Archive
While the knight thus employed himself, four men on horseback came up to the inn, well appointed and accoutred, with carbines hanging on their saddle-bows.
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
No; we just worked for a year, and then, once more accoutring ourselves, we made tracks for the mountain-forests.
From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Gordon Stables
Presently we come to the accoutring of the emissary:— 442.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
So she went to hide in some bosky bouroch or moss-hag, while I bode still among the hazels at the woodside, accoutring myself as a trooper with sword and pistol of tree.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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