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accouter
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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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Verb1.accouter - provide with military equipmentaccouter - provide with military equipment      
equip, fit out, outfit, fit - provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities"


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During the 1930s and 1940s, the Church's name changed to "Zulu National Baptists" (M'timkulu 1977:29) as it fed into a province-wide groundswell of identity politics, seen in the photographic record as the political elite's accoutering au traditionelle (Klopper 1991:214).
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