accoutrement

noun

Etymology: Probably partly from Middle French accoustrement, acoustrement, acoutrement (French accoutrement), from accoustrer, from Old French acostrer (“arrange, sew up”), and partly from accoutre + -ment. First attested in the 1540s.

1. A soldier's equipment, other than weapons and uniform.

   “Thus One / Jovial his Mate bespoke; O Friend, observe, / How gay with all th'Accoutrements of War / The Britons come, with Gold well fraught they come”

   “Three thousand six hundred of the best fighting men, with complete accoutrement; with cannoneers even, and cannon!”

2. An article of clothing or equipment, in particular when used as an accessory.

   “To me ſhe's married, not vnto my cloathes: / Could I repaire what ſhe will weare in me, / As I can change theſe poore accoutrements, / 'Twere well for Kate, and better for my ſelfe.”

   “While one of these loiterers showed the red skin and wild accouterments of a native of the woods, the other exhibited, […]”

3. An identifying yet superficial characteristic.

   “By the summer of 1964 they had achieved the bigger house on the better street and the familiar accouterments of a family on its way up: the $30,000 a year, the three children for the Christmas card, the picture window, the family room, […]”

   “But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, […]”

4. The act of accoutering; furnishing.