accoutre
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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
“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
Richmond was to be evacuated during the night, during which I was to burn my ships, accoutre and provision my men, and join General Lee!
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
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
She herself was accoutred in emerald and azure; her children in clothes copied from Russian ballets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Snappily accoutred Fascist militiamen and plainclothes agents in all conceivable disguises arrived to put Stresa and its basking tourists under careful scrutiny.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus accoutred for the life chivalric, he betook himself to the Court of Macedon, where he received the honour of knighthood from Florendes, the son of the king of that country, and his own father.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
Presently we come to the accoutring of the emissary:— 442.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
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
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
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