impedimenta

noun

Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin impedimenta, circa 1600. Compare impediment.

1. Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.

   “On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.”

   “Dashing back to my compartment, I grabbed my impedimenta - what my companion thought of the maniac who alighted at a station only half-way to the first booked stop I don't know ! - got out, hurried under the subway, and was into my 10.45 comfortably before its departure.”

2. plural of impedimentum