accoutre
pronunciation
How to pronounce accoutre in British English:
UK [əˈkuːtə(r)]
How to pronounce accoutre in American English:
US [ əˈkuːtər]
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- Verb:
- provide with military equipment
Word Origin
- accoutre
- accoutre: [16] Accoutre is related to both couture and sew. English borrowed it from French accoutrer, which meant ‘equip with something, especially clothes’. A stage earlier, Old French had acoustrer, formed from cousture (whence couture) and the prefix a-. This came from Vulgar Latin *consūtūra, literally ‘sewn together’, from con- ‘together’ and sūtūra ‘sewn’ (whence English suture); sūtūra in turn came from the past participial stem of Latin suere, which derived from the same Indo- European root as English sew.=> couture, sew, suture