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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But Dolhanski, for instance, in so far as he has not purchased portraits of ancestors at an auction--and our other gentlemen--judge that blood constitutes that appurtenance.

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk




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