garniture

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Those two were senators in their full garniture, the sons of Servius

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  1. noun Something that garnishes; an embellishment.

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  • The final assembly had been completed, the garniture was in place. —  Last Ditch - Ngaio Marsh - Roderick Alleyn 29
  • Goes about here in a languid expensive manner; "in green coat trimmed with narrow silver-lace, small bag-wig done with French garniture (SCHLEIFE) in front; and has red heels to his shoes." —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • In his bed-chamber, with its antique air and quaint garniture, there stood a bedstead, the fac-simile of the one upon which he died. —  The World As I Have Found It
  • Gray objected to one word, garniture , “as suggesting an idea of dress, and what was worse, of French dress;” and the author tried, but tried in vain, to substitute another. —  Lives of the English Poets
  • MARY LAMB Her education in youth was not much attended to, and she happily missed all the train of female garniture which passeth by the name of accomplishments. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14
 

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  1. French, from Old French, from garnir, to garnish; see garnish.

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  1. from French garniture (= Provencal garnidura = Italian guarnitura; Middle Latin garnitura), furniture, supply, from garnir, furnish, etc.: see garnish.
 

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/ˈgɑrnɪtʃjur/
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