equipage

See also: équipage

English

WOTD – 28 June 2010

Etymology

From Middle French equippage, from equipper. The "carriage" sense may be influenced by Latin equus (“horse”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.kwɪ.pɪdʒ/

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Noun

equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)

1. (uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
   • 1693, [William] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 14:

     Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee vvith my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage and Appurtenances; […]

2. A type of horse-drawn carriage.
   • 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 199:

     At this moment the carriage turned into the Prado; a thousand magnificent equipages, with plumed horses, superb caparisons, and beautiful women bowing to the cavaliers, who stood for a moment on the foot-board, and then bowed their adieus to the “ladies of their love,” passed before our eyes.

3. The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author Attends Them. The Manner in which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related. He Returns to England.”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 306–307:

     For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.

   • 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XXI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 302:

     Miserable and desponding he returned to his home; while Oriana, in again taking leave of her family, was borne back in her aunt's equipage to the splendours of the Park.

4. (obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour, etc.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a compleat French-man at armes, with all his bards.

Derived terms

• breakfast-equipage

Translations

equipment or supplies, especially military ones

• Bulgarian: снаряжение (bg) n (snarjaženie), оборудване (bg) n (oborudvane)
• Finnish: varusteet (fi)
• French: bagages (fr), fourgons (fr), train des équipages (fr)
• German: Ausrüstung (de) f
• Russian: снаряже́ние (ru) n (snarjažénije)
• Spanish: bagaje (es), furgón (es), tren de equipajes
• Turkish: donatı (tr), teçhizat (tr)

a type of horse-drawn carriage

• Bulgarian: екипаж (bg) m (ekipaž)
• Finnish: ekipaasi (fi)
• French: équipage (fr)
• German: Equipage (de) f
• Norwegian: ekvipasje m

  Bokmål: ekvipasje m

  Nynorsk: ekvipasje m

• Russian: экипа́ж (ru) n (ekipáž)
• Spanish: carroza (es), carruaje de lujo
• Swedish: ekipage (sv)

Verb

equipage (third-person singular simple present equipages, present participle equipaging, simple past and past participle equipaged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To furnish with an equipage.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• equipagie (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French équipage, from Middle French esquipage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeːkiˈpaː.ʒə/

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• Hyphenation: equi‧pa‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

equipage f (plural equipages)

1. the crew, equipment and stock of a ship
2. a carriage with draught animals and tack
3. (obsolete) the equipment needed for travels [1612–19th c.]
   • 1612, G. A. Bredero & Reinier Telle, Het vierde deel vande tragedische of claechlijcke historien, fol. 153r.

     Daerom sal u lieden als het u belieft wederom moghen keeren tot Gundebert, om hem onsen goeden wille te doen verstaen, maer niet eer, als ghy sien sult, wat Equipage ende volck dat ick op de beenen sal maecken, om te voldoen mijn belofte, op dat ghy mooght ghetuyghen het ghene dat ghy met uwe eygen ooghen ghesien hebt.

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Related terms

• equiperen