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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

They recognized the artist as a decorative appurtenance of civilized life, very much as they recognized the dentist or the undertaker as its convenient appurtenances.

From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas




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