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

It often seems as though our British monarchy, along with our secret intelligence service, represents the only appurtenance of national greatness still extant.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The only other noted place of amusement is the Italian opera-house, within the city walls, an oven-shaped building externally, but within appropriately and elegantly furnished with every necessary appurtenance.

From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Ballou, Maturin Murray