appurtenance
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There were, of course, millions of men with toothbrush mustaches, but the choice by a performer or politician to keep or to discard a symbolic appurtenance is never accidental.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 12, 2016
The actor is a bodybuilder with what seems to be an ancient helmet tattooed on his head, an armored appurtenance around his neck and stars over his nipples.
From Time ● Sep. 13, 2012
By far the most sensational new presidential appurtenance is an $8,000,000 Boeing VC-137C fan jetliner.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the works of genius, the children of the opulently thatched brain of creative art, have never been questioned as the appurtenance of polite splendor.
From Time Magazine Archive
These were made at the suggestion of Mr. Jones, the keeper of the clock, and which prove very beneficial to him when inspecting and cleaning that necessary appurtenance.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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The Taming of the Shrew
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