Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of appurtenance.
- n. equipment used for a specific task or purpose; gear
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
Examples
“But none of these could have conceived of life without certain appurtenances of that position to which they and she had been born.”
“They were, in short, appurtenances of the household.”
“But this was and is but very dark, in respect of that knowledge of sin with its appurtenances, which is to be obtained.”
“The more people from Mexico traveled to live and work in the USA, the more they came back with the appurtenances of the North of the Border holiday.”
“They ... they are appurtenances, and — and hereditaments, and such things.”
“Department of the Army symbol and the National symbol (Eagle), and are using military rank, uniforms, insignia and appurtenances in a way that appears inappropriate, Weir wrote to his Army counterpart, who has not responded.”
“Think of government programs as the biomechanical appurtenances that render the assimilated incapable of independent action.”
“There were no visible guards or other appurtenances of power.”
“The rear was brought up by a black boy of fourteen or fifteen, who carried medicine bottles, a pail of hot water, and various other hospital appurtenances.”
“The first thermodynamic law of sidekicks tells us that sidekicks make for popular appurtenances in both dramas and comedies because they offer a counterpoint -- often offbeat and comic -- to the hero.”
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bestiary
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