accoutrements

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While a bride's gown, hairstyle and other accoutrements are the first things others see when she walks down the aisle, it's what she wears on her feet that may make the most impact on her wedding day.

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  • While a bride's gown, hairstyle and other accoutrements are the first things others see when she walks down the aisle, it's what she wears on her feet that may make the most impact on her wedding day. —  Sunjournal - Connecting you with your Community
  • March even heard the general clatter of all his accoutrements, as he vaulted into the saddle at one bound, and went down that terrible rocky way at a breakneck gallop that would have caused him (March) in other circumstances to shudder. —  The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
  • The rattle of accoutrements, and thud of the hoofs of their trotting horses, detached itself arrestingly from the surrounding murmur of many voices and ceaseless roar of the traffic at Hyde Park Corner. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
  • I could almost fancy I heard the jingle of his spurs and accoutrements, the creaking of his tall red boots against his high peaked saddle. —  The Desert Drum 1905
  • The blazing log reflects the sheen of arms and accoutrements--saddles, rifles, pistols, canteens, strewing the ground, or hanging from the branches of adjacent trees. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
 

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