accouter
/əˈku tɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] Ile hold thee any wager / When we are both accoutered like yong men, / Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, […]"
- "Vpon the word, / Accoutred as I was, I plunged in,"
- "For this, in rags accoutered, are they seen, / And made the may-game of the public spleen?"
- "Both while he trod the earth in humblest guise / Accoutred with his burthen and his staff;"
- "There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed."
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: accoutrer, acoustrer, acconsūtūrāre, ad, cōnsuō, con-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈku tɚ/