EQUIPAGE

carriage, equipage, rig

(noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses

materiel, equipage

(noun) equipment and supplies of a military force

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)

(uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.

(obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour etc.

A type of horse-drawn carriage.

The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.

Verb

equipage (third-person singular simple present equipages, present participle equipaging, simple past and past participle equipaged)

(transitive, obsolete) To furnish with an equipage.

Source: Wiktionary


Eq"ui*page (; 48), n. Etym: [F. équipage, fr. équiper. See Equip.]

1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope.

2. Retinue; train; suite. Swift.

3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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