accoutrements

noun

variants or accouterments
plural of accoutrement
as in equipment
items needed for the performance of a task or activity has all the accoutrements that the home pastry chef could ever want

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Recent Examples of accoutrements Plus, expect all the usual Chicago festival accoutrements, including stages featuring La Luz and Sun Ra Arkestra. — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026 There is also a brisket burger with a chipotle brioche bun and all the accoutrements. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Aug. 2026 With the first real week of preseason football in the books, the regular season feels well within reach, and with that, the accoutrements that go along with it as well. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026 The renovation reduced the room count, giving the compact quarters (300-537 square feet) a little more breathing space for today’s travelers and all their accoutrements. — Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2026 There, everything from unique eyewear to travel accoutrements will be available as distinctive accessories. — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 24 July 2026 Naturally, the home is filled with lots of midcentury furniture moments, from relaxed seating to curvy, wooden decor accoutrements. — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 23 July 2026 If your style skews maximalist, the bottoms make the perfect blank canvas for playful accoutrements. — Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 18 July 2026 The prevailing motifs include Anglo-American boarding schools and college campuses, accoutrements with a romantic aura (billowing sleeves, melting candles), and analog artifacts (old compasses, monocles). — Sophia Zhang, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accoutrements
  1. equipment
  2. gear
  3. apparatus
Noun
  • The island becoms a military node Keen Sword will also establish a joint coordination center at the Yonaguni garrison, where Japanese and US forces will conduct island-defense exercises and coordinate with equipment deployed at other locations.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Broadly, the idea is that consumers and small shops should have access to the tools, parts and information needed to repair their own electronic devices, farm equipment and cars, among other things.
    — Robert Ferris, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of equipment
Noun
  • Video first obtained by ABC News shows Coast Guard agents equipped in tactical gear boarding the ship, guns drawn, while a separate Coast Guard boat goes alongside of it.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Today's Walmart Deals of the Day feature epic discounts on high-performance audio gear to make your daily routine a musical masterpiece.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of gear
Noun
  • The blades were smaller then, the towers shorter, the whole apparatus closer to a windmill than the hulking machines erected today—the tallest of which exceed 300 meters, with rotor blades longer than a football field.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • While the apparatus of Cockroft and Walton could fit in a room, modern accelerators at facilities like CERN in Switzerland can reach up to 17 miles (27 kilometers) in length.
    — Andrea Richard, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of apparatus

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“Accoutrements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accoutrements. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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