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Appurtenance

noun
1.
Equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc..  Synonyms: gear, paraphernalia.
2.
A supplementary component that improves capability.  Synonyms: accessory, add-on, supplement.






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"Appurtenance" Quotes from Famous Books



... enabled me to see that if she was not in the very first flower of her youth she was still a handsome girl. Her eyes and hair were dark, her face was pale and she held up her head as if, with its thick braids, it were an appurtenance she was not ashamed of. If her mother was excellent and common she was not common (not flagrantly so) and perhaps not excellent. At all events she would not be, in appearance at least, a dreary appendage, and (in the case of a person 'hooking on') that was always something ...
— A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly • Henry James

... those things by which our real strength is constituted. Can we not be content to learn from Europe the graces, the refinements, the amenities of life, so long as we are able to teach her life itself? For my part, I never saw in England any appurtenance of civilization, calculated to add to the convenience and commodiousness of existence, that did not seem to me to surpass anything of the kind that we have in this country. Notwithstanding which—and I am far, indeed, from having any pretensions to asceticism—I would have been fairly stifled ...
— Confessions and Criticisms • Julian Hawthorne



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