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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

But the works of genius, the children of the opulently thatched brain of creative art, have never been questioned as the appurtenance of polite splendor.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

That which appertains to a person; an appurtenance.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster




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