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
She wept awhile, then rose to help accoutre him.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
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
“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
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
She herself was accoutred in emerald and azure; her children in clothes copied from Russian ballets.
From Time Magazine Archive
High up over his neck, and round his chin, he tied a large blue handkerchief, and when thus completely accoutred, gave himself a glance in the glass, saying, "I don't think I should know myself."
From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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
Presently we come to the accoutring of the emissary:— 442.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
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
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