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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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 Mann, Mary E.
“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 Spence, Lewis
She wept awhile, then rose to help accoutre him.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
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 Dodsley, Robert
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 Semmes, Raphael
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
Snappily accoutred Fascist militiamen and plainclothes agents in all conceivable disguises arrived to put Stresa and its basking tourists under careful scrutiny.
From Time Magazine Archive
The film shows how a young society miss singes her wings; in the presentation, gauzy dancers flutter about an individual accoutred as Hell Fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
For never anywhere, among any nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, had I seen any woman so costumed, painted, and accoutred.
From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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 Stables, Gordon
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Presently we come to the accoutring of the emissary:— 442.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
