equipage

equipage

See also: équipage

WOTD – 28 June 2010

English

Etymology

From Middle French equippage, from equipper.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.kwɪ.pɪdʒ/

Noun

equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)

1. (uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
2. (obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour etc.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a compleat French-man at armes, with all his bards.

3. A type of horse-drawn carriage.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 199:

     At this moment the carriage turned into the Prado; a thousand magnificent equipages, with plumed horses, superb caparisons, and beautiful women bowing to the cavaliers, who stood for a moment on the foot-board, and then bowed their adieus to the “ladies of their love,” passed before our eyes.

4. The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.

Translations

equipment or supplies, especially military ones

Bulgarian: снаряжение (bg) n (snarjaženie), оборудване (bg) n (oborudvane) French: bagages (fr), fourgons (fr), train des équipages (fr) German: Ausrüstung (de) f

Russian: снаряже́ние (ru) n (snarjažénije) Spanish: bagaje (es), furgón (es), tren de equipajes Turkish: donatı (tr), teçhizat (tr)

a type of horse-drawn carriage

Bulgarian: екипаж (bg) m (ekipaž) French: équipage (fr) German: Equipage (de) f Norwegian: ekvipasje m

Russian: экипа́ж (ru) n (ekipáž) Spanish: carroza (es), carruaje de lujo Swedish: ekipage (sv)

Verb

equipage (third-person singular simple present equipages, present participle equipaging, simple past and past participle equipaged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To furnish with an equipage.