impedimenta

Example Sentences

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Mr. Grossman photographed the hirsute quartet juxtaposed against a jungle of television cameras, amplifiers and other backstage impedimenta, and he shot from the balcony to capture their electrifying effect on the audience.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2023

Astor Place had the impedimenta landlords left on the sidewalk after old tenants died.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2020

Between the driver and passenger seats there was a large, raised, shag-pile-carpeted area, which I was using to lay out my various writerly impedimenta: voice recorder, notebook, pens and so forth.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2017

Tucked into a body belt, they found eight rolls of film, road maps and other impedimenta, including some notebooks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Useless Muscles.—Whatever a human being has to carry round as useless can only be expressed by the telling Roman word for the baggage of an army, impedimenta.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)