- a variation of accouter.
accoutre
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“Now put these heroes’ swords into their hands,” she commanded, “and accoutre them in their mail.”
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence
She wept awhile, then rose to help accoutre him.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
But hark you, madam; what be these brave blades That thus accoutre you?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
Dietrich Intervenes Dietrich then donned his armour and was assisted to accoutre himself by Hildebrand.
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence
It is also written with a silent o, as in tour, croup, group, youth, wound, souvenir, surtout, cartouche, contour, amour, uncouth, accoutre, moustache, tambourine.
From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary E. Mann
A spare bathroom accoutred with a chandelier — Florida sun catching the crystals, shimmering across a spill of documents stamped "confidential."
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
Kids will continue to play and watch, drawn to the accoutred frowsty barn with its nets and stumps by family or school or the basic joy of bat and ball.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013
Yet the actresses so lavishly accoutred insist that their roles are not a step backward for the feminist movement.
From Time Magazine Archive
The reporter was a man typical of his kind, a seedy fellow, drearily accoutred.
From Time Magazine Archive
High up over his neck, and round his chin, he tied a large blue handkerchief, and when thus completely accoutred, gave himself a glance in the glass, saying, "I don't think I should know myself."
From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
Presently we come to the accoutring of the emissary:— 442.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
So she went to hide in some bosky bouroch or moss-hag, while I bode still among the hazels at the woodside, accoutring myself as a trooper with sword and pistol of tree.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
No; we just worked for a year, and then, once more accoutring ourselves, we made tracks for the mountain-forests.
From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Gordon Stables
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