Eq"ui*page (?; 48), n. [F.
équipage, fr. équiper. See Equip.]
1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or
ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel,
fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture
and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier,
including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments;
accouterments; habiliments; attire.
Did their exercises on horseback with noble
equipage.
Evelyn.
First strip off all her equipage of
Pride.
Pope.
2. Retinue; train; suite.
Swift.
3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with
all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy
turn-out.
The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were
unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam.
W.
Irving.
