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

Those who like their fiction accompanied by a good deal of bookish impedimenta will find almost more than they can handle in Dictionary of the Khazars.

From Time Magazine Archive

This bag contains his briefs, papers and other impedimenta connected with trials.

From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Colles, Julia Keese