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

Author Keyes knows her Louisiana, proves it with a foreword on sources, a bibliography of steamboating, and all her usual period impedimenta: details of dress, descriptions of houses and plantations.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I s-say, old man,” stuttered Philip Orlebar, relinquishing to the care of mother earth—or rather the pavement of the landing-stage—the impedimenta which he had rescued at the cost of such flurry and risk.

From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram