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appurtenance

[uh-pur-tn-uhns] / əˈpɜr tn əns /


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There were, of course, millions of men with toothbrush mustaches, but the choice by a performer or politician to keep or to discard a symbolic appurtenance is never accidental.

From The New Yorker Jan. 12, 2016

The actor is a bodybuilder with what seems to be an ancient helmet tattooed on his head, an armored appurtenance around his neck and stars over his nipples.

From Time Sep. 13, 2012

By far the most sensational new presidential appurtenance is an $8,000,000 Boeing VC-137C fan jetliner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet she says she feels more like her own person, not a presidential appurtenance, when she travels abroad with Reagan.

From Time Magazine Archive

A horse's tail is at once an ornamental appendage and a useful appurtenance; we could not call it an adjunct, tho we might use that word of his iron shoes.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald




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