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equipage

English

Etymology

From Middle French equippage, from equipper.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /??.kw?.p?d?/

Noun

equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)

  1. (uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
  2. (obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour etc.
  3. A type of horse-drawn carriage.
    • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, 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.
  4. The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.

Translations

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): /?e?ki?pa?.??/
  • Hyphenation: equi?pa?ge
  • Rhymes: -a???

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.

Related terms

  • equiperen

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equipaged

English

Etymology

equipage +? -ed

Adjective

equipaged (not comparable)

  1. Furnished with equipage.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowper to this entry?)

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