equipage

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Like all persons of high station, she journeyed in a litter, and Brantôme informs us that her equipage was a modest one, for "she never had more than three baggage-mules and six for her two litters, though she had two, three, or four chariots for her ladies."

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  1. noun Equipment or furnishings.
  2. noun A horse-drawn carriage with attendants.
  3. noun The carriage itself.

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  • The driver of this equipage, a tow-headed lad of some five years old, stood with his thumb in his mouth, gazing with open-eyed amazement at the young lady who thought it worth while to walk so fast Good afternoon, John!" —  Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
  • This magnificent equipage was a trifle rheumaticky about its underpinning, but, drawn by four, six, or eight horses, it still took the road on holidays; and in winter, when the sleighing was unusually fine, with its wheels transformed into sectional runners like a gigantic bob-sled, it swept majestically out upon the road, where it towered above the flock of flying cutters whose bells set the air a-jingle from Bloomingdale to King's Bridge Illustration But if the beauty of Broadway as a country high-road had been marred by its adaptation to the exigencies of a suburb of moderate means, we boys felt the deprivation but little. —  Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
  • You have been here very often, and your equipage has been constantly seen at the door. —  The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook
  • O'Donahue's equipage was always at her door, and it was expected that the marriage would immediately take place, when O'Donahue attended a levee given by the emperor on the Feast of Saint Nicholas. —  The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook
  • Before a week had passed she had set up an equipage, and called upon many of her quondam friends to announce the important intelligence of her daughter's wealth. —  Newton Forster The Merchant Service
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. French équipage, from équiper, to equip; see equip.

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  1. = Spanish equipaje = Portuguese equipagem = Italian equipaggio, from Old French equipage, French équipage = D. G. Danish equipage = Swedish ekipage; from Old French equiper, French équiper, equip: see equip.
  2. from equipage, n.
  3. An erroneous use of equipage, due to a supposed derivation from Latin æquus, equal.
 

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/ˈɛkwɪpədʒ/
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