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

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

Noble lords don’t know what they are about;” a conspicuous and aggressive appurtenance of the “noble and learned,” by the way, is his preposterous umbrella.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham