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
There soon appeared in Manhattan a swank emporium known as the Hammer Galleries, its showcases filled with Sevres vases, jeweled Easter eggs, enameled cups and other bourgeois impedimenta of Tsarist nobility.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, it is not an easy thing to enter lightly into conversation if you bring with you into it so many impedimenta.
From Notwithstanding by Mary Cholmondeley
