ACCOUTREMENTS

  

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ACCOUTREMENTS

Definition: ACCOUTREMENTS

ACCOUTREMENTS

Noun plural

1. Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ACCOUTREMENTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

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Crosswords: ACCOUTREMENTS

English words defined with "ACCOUTREMENTS": Accouterments. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ACCOUTREMENTS": latigo leather. (references)

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Modern Usage: ACCOUTREMENTS

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I recognize the traditional accoutrements. (Star Trek; writing credit: Walter Black; William Hamilton)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: ACCOUTREMENTS

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Guide To The Proper Accoutrements For Hartford Produced Percussion Colt Revolvers (reference)

  • Accoutrements of the Army of the United States (reference)

  • De Alfonce tennis : the superlative game of eccentric champions : its history, accoutrements, rules, conduct, and regimen (reference)

  • Horse Equipments and Cavalry Accoutrements. Repr of the 1970 Ed (reference)

  • Horse Soldier, 1776-1943, Us Cavalryman His Uniforms, Arms, Accoutrements, and Equipments. Vol 2: The Frontiers, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ACCOUTREMENTS

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Greece

U.S. firms will have both the opportunity to provide architectural designs as well as construct the health park and provide building accoutrements. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ACCOUTREMENTS

"ACCOUTREMENTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ACCOUTREMENTS" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%4650,285

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ACCOUTREMENTS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

accoutrements

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ACCOUTREMENTS

Language Translations for "ACCOUTREMENTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

akkomodasie (accoutrement, equipment), uitrusting (accoutrement, equipment). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

лично снаряжение, премяна (apparel, attire, best bib and tucker, dress, fig, finery, get up, glad rags, livery, one's best tucker, tire). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

配件 (accouterment, Accouterments, accoutrement, Appendage). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

accommodatie (accommodation, accoutrement, equipment), uitrustingsstuk (accoutrement, equipment), uitrusting (accoutrement, appliance, collective facilities, community equipment, community facilities, equipment, fitting out, implementation, implementation of a system, municipal facilities, outfit, outfitting, plant, public facilities, tackle), inrichting (accommodation, accoutrement, adjustment, apparatus, appliance, arrangement, contrivance, device, equipment, establishment, institute, mechanism, plant, set, tackle). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mez (accoutrement, dress, jersey, shirt, strip), lovagi felszerelés (accoutrement), díszes lószerszám (accoutrement, trapping, trappings), cicoma (accoutrement, finery, frippery, furbelow, furbelows, gaud, get-up), alkalmi öltözék (accoutrement), öltözék (clothes, clothing, dress, garment, get up, get-up, guise, habiliments, raiment, toilet, toilette). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

武装具 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぶそうぐ. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

군장 (accouterment, Accouterments, accoutrement). (various references)

   

Manx

  

eillaghyn. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

ekipahe (accoutrement, baggage, equipment, luggage). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

accoutrementsay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

equipamento (accoutrement, appliance, appointments, environment, equipment, fig, fitter, furniture industry, gear, habiliment, hardware, maternal, outfit, paraphernalia, plant, rig, stock in trade, tackle). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

echipament (accoutrement, appointment, equipage, equipment, fig, furnishings, furniture, harness, kit, outfit, stock in trade, tool). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

uigheam (furniture, instruments), uidheam (See <A HREF="mf13.html#uigheam">uigheam</A>), earradh (clothes, dress). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utstyrsel (accoutrement, caparison, format, get up, get-up, outfit, trappings, turnout). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

teçhizat (accoutrement, appointments, arming, equipage, equipment, fitment, fittings, fixings, gear, hardware, rig), donanım (accoutrement, appointments, equipage, equipment, furnishing, gear, hardware, implement, rig, rigging, tackle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ACCOUTREMENTS

Misspellings

"ACCOUTREMENTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accotrement, accounterments, accountrement, accoutraments, accoutriments, accoutrments, accroutrements, accutrement, accutrements, acouterments, acoutrament, acoutrement, acoutrements, acoutriments, eccoutrement. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ACCOUTREMENTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: accouterments.

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-m-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: accouterment, accoutrement.

-2 letters: accruements, counteracts.

-3 letters: accruement, consecrate, contactees, counteract, menstruate, octameters, recontacts, utterances.

-4 letters: accentors, accouters, accoutres, cancerous, carotenes, castoreum, cetaceous, cocreates, concretes, construct, contactee, contester, contracts, coruscant, coruscate, cotrustee, courantes, courtesan, eructates, mucronate, nectarous, numerates, octameter, outrances, reaccents, recontact, rousement, tautomers, transmute, trecentos, truncates, tumescent, turncoats, uncreates, utterance.

-5 letters: accentor, accounts, accouter, accoutre, accretes, accustom, acescent, acetones, ancestor, carotene, casement, centares, centaurs, centrums, cerumens, cocreate, coenacts, coenures, coerects, concerts, concrete, construe, consumer, contacts, contract, contrast, cosecant, costumer, counters, courante, courants, cremates, crescent, curettes, customer, earstone, ectosarc, enactors, enamours, entreats, eructate, maturest, menacers, menstrua, monstera, mounters, mucrones, muenster, nacreous, neuromas, notecase, numerate, nutmeats, onstream, outcaste, outearns, outeaten, outraces, outrance, outrates, outsmart, outstare, outsteer, racemose, racemous, ratteens, reaccent, reaccuse, reascent, recounts, recusant, reenacts, remotest, remounts, resonate, romances, romaunts, routeman, routemen, sarcenet, sauterne, seamount, secateur, stuccoer, tantrums, taunters, tautomer, teamster, tonearms, torments, transect, trecento, trounces, truncate, turncoat, uncrates, uncreate.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-m-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"
 

+4 letters: intercommunicates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ACCOUTREMENTS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 43 43 4F 55 54 52 45 4D 45 4E 54 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.-.    -.-.    ---    ..-    -    .-.    .    --    .    -.    -    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000011 01000011 01001111 01010101 01010100 01010010 01000101 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#67 &#67 &#79 &#85 &#84 &#82 &#69 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0043 0043 004F 0055 0054 0052 0045 004D 0045 004E 0054 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35373749555452394739485453

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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