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
Pearl Harbor is still growing; the land area surrounding it is still being covered with new hundreds of acres of warehouses, shops and all the other impedimenta of a rear base.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was much exercised in mind by the lack of the usual impedimenta of a traveller, and accepted my explanations with palpable suspicion.
From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by John Morse
