variants
or accouterments
as in equipment
items needed for the performance of a task or activity
has all the accoutrements that the home pastry chef could ever want
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Recent Examples of accoutrements
The source of all these accoutrements?
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Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
Crème de la Crème is popular for home goods and is stocked with an assortment of glassware, candles, linens, and garden accoutrements.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
Yes—procuring the wacky and delightful pencils, pens, notebooks, and other assorted accoutrements from Anya Hindmarch.
—Air Mail, 30 Aug. 2025
By default, its attentions drift toward the accoutrements of a semi-imaginary, quasi-boho/punk lifestyle, with everybody living in quirky cool pads and wearing quirky cool clothes.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
While opening dates and hours vary, some are open year-round and several spring to life in April, offering fresh produce, handmade items and gourmet accoutrements such as jams and jellies.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2025
Fill the spaces with accoutrements of your choice (see below).
—Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
With 11 cuts—from Prime and Dry-Aged to Wagyu—and 15 accoutrements and sauces to accompany them, you are bound to have a beefier flavor experience than at the steakhouse down the street.
—Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
Crème de la Crème is popular for home goods and is stocked with an assortment of glassware, candles, linens, and garden accoutrements.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
Yes—procuring the wacky and delightful pencils, pens, notebooks, and other assorted accoutrements from Anya Hindmarch.
—Air Mail, 30 Aug. 2025
By default, its attentions drift toward the accoutrements of a semi-imaginary, quasi-boho/punk lifestyle, with everybody living in quirky cool pads and wearing quirky cool clothes.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
While opening dates and hours vary, some are open year-round and several spring to life in April, offering fresh produce, handmade items and gourmet accoutrements such as jams and jellies.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2025
Fill the spaces with accoutrements of your choice (see below).
—Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
With 11 cuts—from Prime and Dry-Aged to Wagyu—and 15 accoutrements and sauces to accompany them, you are bound to have a beefier flavor experience than at the steakhouse down the street.
—Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accoutrements
Noun
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In the province of Alberta, Calgary’s council voted in 2011 to stop fluoridation in part because of community skepticism and because expensive repairs to the equipment were needed, according to Councillor Gian-Carlo Carrà.—
Anna Clark,
ProPublica,
18 Sep. 2025
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As a health provider, Ascension likely uses legacy medical equipment—an older X-ray or MRI machine, for instance—that can only connect to Windows networks with the older implementation.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The game remains accessible to new players and to fans who might not get what this role playing stuff means.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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This eye cream is loaded with some fancy-sounding stuff.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Material to be covered includes choosing the right camera, choosing compatible accessories and techniques to produce pleasing night sky photographs.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
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Tools Shop your favorite category or keep scrolling for the year's very best hot tools, makeup brushes, and hair accessories.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This private and public investment goes to companies pursuing several different approaches to quantum computing hardware.—
Gil Press,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The business specializes in leather, leather working tools, buckles, lather dyes, tack hardware, adornments for belts and do-it-yourself kits.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Sep. 2025
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This book contains rules for building headquarters for any super team with facilities that can affect game play.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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If a company commits to build domestically, it should be required to place those production facilities into service before receiving tariff exemptions or other government support.—
Joel Thayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Their texture and design mimics a nipple, so babies respond well to the familiar suckling apparatus.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
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The robotic apparatus can then treat the bees according to their characteristics.—
Diana Olick,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The engineers also found trash, drug paraphernalia and human excrement due to encampments on the property, according to a copy of Terracon’s Limited Site Investigation Report obtained by The Denver Post through a Colorado Open Records Act request.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
14 Sep. 2025
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Sara has additionally been charged with possession of paraphernalia, possession of drug paraphernalia and the introduction of contraband into a penal facility, police said.—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
13 Sep. 2025
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Another unexpected win here is that the side of the docking station opens up to reveal perfect little spaces to store the extra mini-brush and crevice tools.—
Loz Blain
September 20,
New Atlas,
20 Sep. 2025
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Beyond the imminent threat posed by Chinese hackers and Volt Typhoon, Rob Lee of Dragos cites the war in Ukraine as a big driver for choosing to donate the company's tools to infrastructure operators.—
Jenna McLaughlin,
NPR,
20 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Accoutrements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accoutrements. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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