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
Almost the only appurtenance consonant with his celebrity is an address book Don Juan would envy.
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
They recognized the artist as a decorative appurtenance of civilized life, very much as they recognized the dentist or the undertaker as its convenient appurtenances.
From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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The Taming of the Shrew
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