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accouter en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /əˈku tɚ/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle French accoutrer, from Old French acoustrer, from Vulgar Latin acconsūtūrāre (“to equip with clothes”), from Latin ad (“to”) + consūtūra (“sewing, clothes”), from Latin cōnsuō (“to sew together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + suō (“to sew”), first attested in the 1590s.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service.
   • […] Ile hold thee any wager / When we are both accoutered like yong men, / Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, […] c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 177, column 1:
   • There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed. 2022, Jennifer Egan, “What the Forest Remembers”, in The Candy House:
   • For this, in rags accoutered, are they seen, / And made the may-game of the public spleen? 1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Perseus”, in Walter Scott, editor, The works of John Dryden, volume 13, published 1808, page 235:
   • Both while he trod the earth in humblest guise / Accoutred with his burthen and his staff; 1814, William Wordsworth, “The Solitary”, in The Excursion:
   • Vpon the word, / Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 110, column 2:

Forms

Deriveds

unaccoutered

Relateds

accouterment

Synonyms

vest · attire · address · beclothe · equip · dress · invest · accouter · apparel · don · attire · slip on · enrobe · dight · array · array · clothe · garment · equip · put on · robe

Translations (9)

bg обличам (to furnish with dress or equipments) · bg екипирам (to furnish with dress or equipments) · sv utrusta (to furnish with dress or equipments) · de ausrüsten (to furnish with dress or equipments) · fi varustaa (to furnish with dress or equipments) · uk екіпірувати (to furnish with dress or equipments) · uk споряджати (to furnish with dress or equipments) · la accustor (to furnish with dress or equipments) · fr accoutrer (to furnish with dress or equipments)