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appurtenance

noun as in accessory

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Appurtenance, ap-pur′ten-ans, n. that which appertains to: an appendage or accessory: (law) a right belonging to a property.

The Zulus hold that a dead body can cast no shadow, because that appurtenance departed from it at the close of life.

Pale sunlight flooded the square, white room where, in all its dignified complexity of appurtenance, the simple meal was laid out.

Curious wooden slat dance appurtenance made to represent lightning and its motions.

The two had a simultaneous birth, but it was an appurtenance of the latter that marked the distinction and gave the names.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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