accoutred

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Dressed; clothed.

   1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados The very unromantically accoutred form of a keen-visaged, middle-aged female, padding heavily in bedroom slippers along the garden walk, gave its quietus to the situation.

The past-participial adjective of accoutre, borrowed from French accoutrer, meaning to equip, dress, or furnish. English first used it especially for supplying a soldier with clothing and equipment, then broadened it to any distinctive outfitting.

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