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appurtenance

[uh-pur-tn-uhns] / əˈpɜr tn əns /


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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

Klein's pristine tube for Escape began in his mind as an appurtenance in an English travel case.

From Time Magazine Archive

One other appurtenance of a dining-room is found in all early inventories—a voider.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle




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