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English Dictionary: equipage by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
equipage
n
  1. equipment and supplies of a military force [syn: materiel, equipage]
  2. a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
    Synonym(s): carriage, equipage, rig
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Equipage \Eq"ui*page\ (?; 48), n. [F. [82]quipage, fr.
      [82]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.
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