equipage

From Middle French equippage, from equipper.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.kwɪ.pɪdʒ/

equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)

1. (uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
2. (obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour etc.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a compleat French-man at armes, with all his bards.

3. A type of horse-drawn carriage.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 199:

     At this moment the carriage turned into the Prado; a thousand magnificent equipages, with plumed horses, superb caparisons, and beautiful women bowing to the cavaliers, who stood for a moment on the foot-board, and then bowed their adieus to the “ladies of their love,” passed before our eyes.

4. The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.

equipage (third-person singular simple present equipages, present participle equipaging, simple past and past participle equipaged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To furnish with an equipage.