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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

Yet she says she feels more like her own person, not a presidential appurtenance, when she travels abroad with Reagan.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A horse's tail is at once an ornamental appendage and a useful appurtenance; we could not call it an adjunct, tho we might use that word of his iron shoes.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin




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