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

By far the most sensational new presidential appurtenance is an $8,000,000 Boeing VC-137C fan jetliner.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

A well selected economical library of such books as are calculated to inculcate the love of knowledge and virtue, ought to form an essential appurtenance to every plantation.

From American Slave Trade or, An Account of the Manner in which the Slave Dealers take Free People from some of the United States of America, and carry them away, and sell them as Slaves in other of the States; and of the horrible Cruelties practised in the carrying on of this most infamous Traffic by Torrey, Jesse