accouterment

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noun

American spelling of accoutrement.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounaccouterment (plural accouterments)

plural accouterments

  1. American spelling of accoutrement.

    While one of these loiterers showed the red skin and wild accouterments of a native of the woods, the other exhibited, […]

    1826, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 3, in The Last of the Mohicans
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    And then from beyond the blank wall beside which I lay I heard the shuffling of feet, the snarling of grim beasts, the clank of metal accouterments, and the heavy breathing of a man.

    1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Thuvia”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC, page 56

    By the summer of 1964 they had achieved the bigger house on the better street and the familiar accouterments of a family on its way up: the $30,000 a year, the three children for the Christmas card, the picture window, the family room, […]

    1968, Joan Didion, “Life Styles in the Golden Land”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, […]

    2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020

Synonyms & antonyms

nounclothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing

Broader
clothingarticle of clothingvesture

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Cite this entry
APA

accouterment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/accouterment

MLA

“accouterment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/accouterment. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “accouterment,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/accouterment.

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