impedimenta

• He was bereft of the more traditional impedimenta, and determined to be proud of it. —  SON OF A WITCH
• The rest was black with a blackness sentient of vague forms--an impenetrable wall of darkness that seemed to stand between them and the outer world Picking their way carefully between débris and other impedimenta, they made their way towards the section, and had covered half the distance when Garstin stopped. —  Adventures in Many Lands
• All along there was underfoot much of soldiers' impedimenta--knapsacks, belts, accoutrements of all kinds, rolled blankets and oilcloths, canteens. —  The Long Roll
• At length the preparations were all complete; the official impedimenta--so to speak-- had all been collected at Sir Philip Swinburne's offices in Victoria Street, carefully packed in zinc-lined cases, and dispatched for shipment in the steamer which was to take the surveyors to South America. —  Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru
• This is a factor which a traveller in this part of New Guinea may well bear in mind in connection with his impedimenta, as he has no difficulty in getting the Kuni and Mafulu people to carry packages on their heads, which the Mekeo folk are unwilling to do The modes in which the men dress their hair, so far as I was able to notice, may be roughly divided into the following categories:--(_a_) A simple crop of hair either cut quite close or allowed to grow fairly long, or anything between these two, but not dressed in any way, and probably uncombed, unkempt and untidy. —  The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea

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