equipage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses

   The nobleman arrived with a costly equipage.

2. 2
   noun

   A type of horse-drawn carriage.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.

   For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.

4. 4
   noun

   equipment and supplies of a military force

   The nobleman arrived with a costly equipage.

From Middle French equippage, from equipper. The "carriage" sense may be influenced by Latin equus (“horse”).

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