impedimenta
Example Sentences
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Mr. Grossman photographed the hirsute quartet juxtaposed against a jungle of television cameras, amplifiers and other backstage impedimenta, and he shot from the balcony to capture their electrifying effect on the audience.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2023
Astor Place had the impedimenta landlords left on the sidewalk after old tenants died.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2020
Between the driver and passenger seats there was a large, raised, shag-pile-carpeted area, which I was using to lay out my various writerly impedimenta: voice recorder, notebook, pens and so forth.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2017
He wore high rubber boots, and carried the classic impedimenta of espionage: a camera, binoculars, maps and a notebook.
From Time Magazine Archive
These have known the exaltation of stripping life of its impedimenta to do a thing set for them to do; giving up all for an idea.
From Lest We Forget World War Stories by Bigwood, Inez
