Equipage

Word EQUIPAGE
Character 8
Hyphenation eq ui page
Pronunciations /ˈɛ.kwɪ.pɪdʒ/

Definitions and meanings of "Equipage"

What do we mean by equipage?

Equipment or furnishings. noun

A horse-drawn carriage with attendants. noun

The carriage itself. noun

A retinue, as of a noble or royal personage. noun

A set of small household articles, such as a tea service. noun

A collection of small articles for personal use. noun

To furnish with an equipage or outfit.

Equality. noun

An outfit; provision of means or materials for carrying out a purpose; furniture for efficient service or action; an equipment: specifically applied to the outfit of a ship or an army, including supplies of all kinds for the former, and munitions of war for the latter. noun

Furniture; garniture; accoutrements; habiliments; dress. noun

Retinue, as persons, horses, carriages, etc.; a train of attendants or dependents; especially, a coach with the horses, servants, liveries, harness, etc.: as, the equipage of a prince; Lady A.'s equipage was the handsomest in the park. noun

A collection of little implements often carried about the person, either in an étui made for the purpose, or suspended from a chatelaine, especially in the eighteenth century. noun

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. noun

Retinue; train; suite. noun

A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. noun

Equipment or supplies, especially military ones. noun

Military dress; uniform, armour etc. noun

A type of horse-drawn carriage. noun

Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.

Military dress; uniform, armour etc.

A type of horse-drawn carriage.

The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Equipage

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The word "equipage" in example sentences

I have mentioned her mode of pronouncing the word equipage, which, together with several similar peculiarities that struck me as very odd, were borrowed from the usage of London good society in the days when she frequented it. ❋ Fanny Kemble (1851)

Lady Delacour was immediately ambitious to outshine her in equipage; and it was this paltry ambition that made her condescend to all the meanness of the transaction by which she obtained Miss Portman's draft, and Clarence Hervey's two hundred guineas. ❋ Unknown (1801)

Mistress Betty promised to send her young friends sets of silk for their embroidery (and kept her word); she presented Prissy with her enamel snuff-box, bearing an exact representation of that ugly building of St. James's; and Fiddy with her "equipage" -- scissors, tablets, and all, chased and wreathed with tiny pastorals, shepherds reclining and piping on sylvan banks, and shepherds and shepherdesses dancing on velvet lawns. ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)

As if the equipage were a great firework, and the mere sight of ❋ Unknown (2007)

His equipage was a wooden telyaga drawn by two powerful horses. ❋ Thomas Wallace Knox (1865)

As if the equipage were a great firework, and the mere sight of a smoking cottage chimney had lighted it, instantly it begins to crack and splutter, as if the very devil were in it. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

A little while ago her equipage was the most admired in the Bois, and great ladies condescended to copy her dress or her coiffure; but she has lost her splendour, and dismissed the rich admirer who supplied the fuel for its blaze, since she fell in love with Gustave Rameau. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

There is a general keeping in this gorgeous equipage, which is highly creditable to the taste of the marchioness, for the marquis, "good easy man," (though a Bruce), he is too much engaged preserving his game at Ro-er-n park, and keeping up the game in St. St.phen's (where his influence is represented by no less than eight "sound men and true"), to attend to these trifling circumstances. ❋ Robert Cruikshank (1828)

Clothing and lodging, household furniture, and what is called equipage, are the principal objects of the greater part of those wants and fancies. ❋ Adam Smith (1756)

When they returned after completing their shopping, their "equipage" had proven to be such a curiosity that a "few thousand pedestrians" had gathered to look at it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The basket of telegrams was set outside beside a fried sole and the "equipage" which Madame had so much admired, and, while he sipped his tea, the Prophet opened the wires one by one. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

The hotels are thronged, nearly every kind of equipage is taken up at an almost fabulous price, and there are many respectable people mingling with jockeys, and gamblers, and libertines, and foul-mouthed men and flashy women. ❋ Unknown (1867)

The Russians apply the term 'equipage' to any vehicle, whether on wheels or runners, and with or without its motive power. ❋ Thomas Wallace Knox (1865)

Permit me to assert my natural right to escort my child to the equipage which is in waiting for her, 'he begged pardon and gave place. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

Add into the passenger list some members from groups like It Bites, Frost and even XTC and you got on hell of an "equipage". ❋ Unknown (2010)

"equipage" was easily entered by merely stepping into its open rear. ❋ Evelyn Raymond (1876)

Permit me to assert my natural right to escort my child to the equipage which is in waiting for her,’ he begged pardon and gave place. ❋ Unknown (2004)

For instance, were I to ride upon this Saw-Horse, he would not only be an animal he would become an equipage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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