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/pˌɛrəfənˈeɪljə/ Listen

noun

Paraphernalia n. pl.

(Law) Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.

Personal belongings; ornaments; finery; sundry objects carried about for personal convenience.

The appendages, apparatus, or equipment used in a particular activity; as, surveyors unloading their paraphernalia from a van.

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Etymology of 'Paraphernalia'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Paraphernalia" Quotes from Famous Books

... rigged with the Ardois lamps, and she also carried all the necessary signal flags and other paraphernalia required to communicate with other vessels of the fleet. The signalmen on board had been drilled in their work as members of the Naval Reserve prior to the beginning of the war, and they ...

— A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" • Russell Doubleday

... served in the old proconsular house, with the Roman paraphernalia, arranged with the amount of correct imitation that is to be found at an English dinner-party in the abode of an Indian Rajah. It began with Roman etiquette, but ended in a Gothic revel, which the sober and refined AEmilii ...

— More Bywords • Charlotte M. Yonge

... prowess was equally recognised in Southern Europe. The Italian poets employed such imposing paraphernalia in the construction of an epic; and Cervantes has ridiculed the prevailing belief ...

— The Superstitions of Witchcraft • Howard Williams

... were broken in on by the awkward shuffling of heavy feet in the hallway, and then some one knocked loudly on his door. Gilmore glanced hastily about to assure himself that the tell-tale paraphernalia of his craft were nowhere visible, and that the room was all he liked to fancy it—the parlor of a gentleman with sufficient ...

— The Just and the Unjust • Vaughan Kester

... not upon merit, while it has the capital disadvantage of erecting false standards of measurement, so that the Mu Nu man cannot be just to the hero of Zeta Eta. The secrecy is a spice that overbears the food. The mystic paraphernalia is a relic of the baby-house, ...

— Ars Recte Vivende - Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" • George William Curtis

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