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Webster 1913 Edition
Equipage
1.
Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire.
Did their exercises on horseback with noble
equipage
. Evelyn.
First strip off all her
equipage
of Pride. Pope.
2.
Retinue; train; suite.
Swift.
3.
A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out.
The rumbling
equipages
of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving.
Webster 1828 Edition
Equipage
EQ'UIPAGE
,Noun.
1.
The furniture of an army or body of troops, infantry or cavalry; including arms, artillery, utensils, provisions, and whatever is necessary for a military expedition. Camp equipage includes tents, and every thing necessary for accommodation in camp. Field equipage consists of arms, artillery, wagons, tumbrels, &c.2.
The furniture of an armed ship, or the necessary preparations for a voyage; including cordage, spars, provisions, &c.3.
Attendance, retinue, as persons, horses, carriages, &c.; as the equipage of a prince.4.
Carriage of state; vehicle; as celestial equipage.5.
Accouterments; habiliments; ornamental furniture.Definition 2024
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See also: équipage
English
Noun
equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)
- (uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
- (obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour etc.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.9:
- Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a compleat French-man at armes, with all his bards.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.9:
- A type of horse-drawn carriage.
Translations
equipment or supplies, especially military ones