appurtenance

Example Sentences

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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

Almost the only appurtenance consonant with his celebrity is an address book Don Juan would envy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tanks, cannon, airplanes, Red Cross ambulances and every appurtenance of real war, right down to hot weather, secrecy and red tape, accompanied the show.

From Time Magazine Archive

An humble companion, well born, well educated, and perfectly dependent, is a most useful appurtenance in the best families.

From The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts by Burgoyne, John