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accouter

US/əˈku tɚ/

accouter verb: to furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service.

Verb

accouter (third-person singular simple present accouters, present participle accoutering, simple past and past participle accoutered)

  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]...
    • 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]...

Synonyms of accouter

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Forms of accouter

third-person singular presentaccouters
present participleaccoutering
past participleaccoutered
pastaccoutered
alternative Commonwealthaccoutre

Origin of accouter

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.

Words formed from accouter

Questions about accouter

What does accouter mean?
Accouter means to furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service.
What part of speech is accouter?
Accouter is a verb.
How do you pronounce accouter?
Accouter is pronounced /əˈku tɚ/ (US).
What is the past tense of accouter?
The past tense of accouter is accoutered.

Words near accouter in the dictionary

  1. accouris
  2. accourt
  3. accourted
  4. accourting
  5. accourts
  6. accouter
  7. accoutered
  8. accoutering
  9. accouterment
  10. accouterments
  11. accouters

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