accoutrement

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsaccessoryaccouterment

   Broaderclothing

   Narrowerbeltfurnishing

Other forms of accoutrement

plural

accoutrements·

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 accoutrement

What does accoutrement mean?

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

How many syllables are in accoutrement?

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

What is another word for accoutrement?

Close synonyms include accessory, accouterment. 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 accoutrement a common word?

accoutrement 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 accoutrement?

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