accoutred

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So accoutred, the youth's next thought was, that he must supply himself with a bow.

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  1. provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military)

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  • Thus accoutred, they all rode on together to the North. —  George Washington, Vol. I
  • Thus accoutred, and squatting in the ledges of their small booths, the jewelers, blacksmiths and tailors of Bona are found at their work Returning to Philippeville by land, and remaining as short a time as possible in this unedifying city, which is a bad and overheated imitation of a French provincial town, we concede only so much to its modern character as to hire a fine open carriage in which to proceed inland toward Constantina. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
  • Thus accoutred, and walking with the confident tread of such a character, and with the supple freedom of a woman who had habitually walked in her girlhood, bare-foot and bare-legged, on the brown sea-sand, Madame Defarge took her way along the streets Now, when the journey of the travelling coach, at that very moment waiting for the completion of its load, had been planned out last night, the difficulty of taking Miss Pross in it had much engaged Mr. Lorry's attention. —  A Tale of Two Cities
  • Thus accoutred, and drawing myself up to my full height, I hastened to rejoin Mr. Frampton. My arrangements seemed thoroughly to have answered their purpose, for he gazed at me without evincing the slightest symptom of recognition. —  Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
  • So his horse was accoutred, and he arose, and sallied forth to the meadow. —  The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3)
 

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