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accoutered

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ac·cou·ter or ac·cou·tre  (-ktr)
tr.v. ac·cou·tered or ac·cou·tred, ac·cou·ter·ing or ac·cou·tre·ing, ac·cou·ters or ac·cou·tres
To outfit and equip, as for military duty. See Synonyms at furnish.
[French accoutrer, from Old French acoustrer, arrange, equip : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + coustrer, sew; see couture.]
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Adj.1.accouteredaccoutered - provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military); "troops accoutered for battle"; "properly accoutered for the trip"
accoutred
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
equipped, equipt - provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate; "a well equipped playground"; "a ship equipped with every mechanical aid to navigation"


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Thus accoutered, bog and marsh and undergrowth had no terrors for him.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
All were working hard; and he himself looked up from writing a page of memoranda in a private room to see Horne Fisher standing in the doorway, accoutered as if for travel.
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
The doctor had been no less carefully armed and accoutered by his housekeeper, the vigilant Frau Ilsy, and sallied forth in his camlet robe by way of surcoat,[1] his black velvet cap under his cocked hat, a thick clasped book under his arm, a basket of drugs and dried herbs in one hand, and in the other the miraculous rod of divination.
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