Equipage

Quick meaning: Equipage is a noun meaning (uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.

Meaning

(uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.

More Meanings

1. A type of horse-drawn carriage.
2. The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To furnish with an equipage.
4. (obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour, etc.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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; […]

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.

Word Forms

• equipages
• equipaging
• equipaged

Synonyms for equipage

Depending on context, synonyms include carriage, rig, materiel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include materiel, carriage, rig, armament, ordnance, company.

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