equipage Meaning, Definition & Usage

Eq"ui*page noun

Etymology

F. équipage, fr. équiper. See Equip.

Definitions

1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire.

   Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn.

   First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope.

2. Retinue; train; suite. Swift.
3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out.

   The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving.