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accoutrement

n.
US //əˈkutɝmənt// UK //ɐkˈuːtɹɪmənt// ac·cou·trement Archaic
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Probably partly from Middle French accoustrement, acoustrement, acoutrement (French accoutrement), from accoustrer, from Old French acostrer (“arrange, sew up”), and partly from accoutre + -ment. First attested in the 1540s.

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