accouterment

1. 1.

   clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing

   Synonymsaccessoryaccoutrement

   Broaderclothing

   Narrowerbeltfurnishing

Other forms of accouterment

plural

accouterments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about accouterment

What does accouterment mean?

accouterment means "clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing".

How many syllables are in accouterment?

accouterment has 4 syllables: ac-cou-ter-ment. The stress falls on "cou". In IPA it is /əˈkutɚmənt/.

What is another word for accouterment?

Close synonyms include accessory, accoutrement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accouterment a common word?

accouterment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with accouterment?

1 word rhymes with accouterment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.