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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Equipage \Eq"ui*page\ (?; 48), noun [F. ['e]quipage, fr. ['e]quiper. See {Equip}.]
1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire.
Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. --Evelyn.
First strip off all her equipage of Pride. --Pope.
2. Retinue; train; suite. --Swift.
3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out.
The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. --W. Irving.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
equipage
noun
1: equipment and supplies of a military force [syn: {materiel}]
2: a vehicle with four wheels drawn by two or more horses [syn: {carriage}, {rig}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "equipage": accouterments, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, conveniences, duffel, equipment, facilities, facility, fittings, fixtures, four-in-hand, furnishings, furniture, gear, impedimenta, installations, kit, machinery, materiel, munition, munitions, outfit, pair, paraphernalia, plant, plumbing, randem, rig, rigging, span, spike, spike team, stock-in-trade, tackle, tandem, team, things, three-up, turnout, unicorn, utensils
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