Definition of "accoutre" [accoutre]

• To furnish with dress, or equipment, especially those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. (verb)

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• "Today is St. Patrick's Day — you know, that day when you accoutre yourself with assorted green items raided from the local Poundland or EuroSt.re and imbibe vast quantities of a black alcoholic beverage with lots of froth on top."
• "The trouble is that this alternative tradition plays into the hands of the witch doctor, the shaman, the faith healer—all those practitioners who, in place of the reassuring diploma, potted plant, and receptionist, accoutre themselves with ethnic arcana, nonspecific aromas, and hypnotic auras, which serve to mystify the personage of said practitioner even more than the already enigmatic illness."
• "General Murat, to surround Your Majesty's sacred person, and order them to accoutre themselves in the most shining and splendid manner possible."