accouter

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accouter

/əˈku tɚ/ US

Where it comes from

From Middle French accoutrer, from Old French acoustrer, from Vulgar Latin acconsūtūrāre (“to equip with clothes”), from Latin ad (“to”) + consūtūra (“sewing, clothes”), from Latin cōnsuō (“to sew together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + suō (“to sew”), first attested in the 1590s.

verb accouters · accoutering · accoutered · accoutre

transitive To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service. […] Ile hold thee any wager / When we are both accoutered like yong men, / Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, […]
Similar: equip, attire, array, accouter, address, apparel, beclothe, clothe, dight, don, garment, dress

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verb to furnish with dress or equipments

Français	accoutrer
Deutsch	ausrüsten

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@misc{accouter_2026,
  title = {accouter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/accouter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}