accouter

English

Alternative forms

• (Commonwealth) accoutre

Etymology

• First attested in the 1590s.
• From 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈku tɚ/

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

   Synonyms: equip, attire, array

   • 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] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 177, column 1:

     […] Ile hold thee any wager / When we are both accoutered like yong men, / Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, […]

   • Late 17th century John Dryden, The Third Satire of Perseus

     For this, in rags accoutered are they seen.

   • 1807, William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper

     Accoutered with his burden and his staff.

Translations

to furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array

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• Dutch: voorzien (nl), uitdossen (nl)
• French: accoutrer (fr)
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• Latin: accustor

See also

• accoutrement

Anagrams

• accoutre, cocurate

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Etymology

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Verb

accouter

1. (Jersey, reflexive, s'accouter) to lean upon one's elbows