Meaning

(uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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; […]

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.

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.

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.

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

Word Forms

• equipages
• equipaging
• equipaged

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Use equipage when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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