The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary

Marguerite, closely veiled and followed by Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, who, in the guise of her lacquey, was carrying a number of impedimenta, found her way down to the pier.

Emma Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)

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"I suppose if I regretted any of my own impedimenta, it would be the pipe. Though, as a matter of fact, it's not much fun smoking in the dark. Everything seems different in the dark."

Gilbert K. Chesterton. The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Vanishing Prince

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Everything had a battered, trampled-on look, as though the place had just been visited by some large violent animal. Games impedimenta—hockey sticks, boxing gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out—lay all over the floor,

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)

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Then at a sign from him all the others gathered up their impedimenta and quietly went off in Tarions directions, leaving us alone.

Louis Becke. The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton (1902)