different between equipage vs paraphernalia

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

English

Etymology

A loan from Ancient Greek ????????? (parápherna, “goods which a wife brings over and above her dowry”), a compound of ???? (pará, “beside”) +? ????? (phern?, “dowry”), i.e. “things additional to a dowry”. In the propertied classes, a dowry was placed under the control of the husband, while the paraphernalia which she brought with her remained the wife’s property.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæ??f??ne?li.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p???f??ne?li.?/, /?p???f??ne?li.?/
• Rhymes: -e?li?
• Hyphenation: par?a?pher?na?lia

Noun

paraphernalia pl (plural only)

1. Miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity.

   Synonym: stuff
2. (archaic, family law) Things a married woman owns, such as clothing and jewellery, apart from her dowry.

   Synonym: parapherna

Translations

Further reading

• paraphernalia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia