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appurtenance
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Definition:an item associated with a particular activity or style of living
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He cracked his knuckles and sat down, sorting out his writing appurtenances. Putting his elbows on the table, he bent his head on one side, thought a minute, and began to write, without pausing for a second.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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One day, without consulting Legree, she suddenly took it upon her, with some considerable ostentation, to change all the furniture and appurtenances of the room to one at some considerable distance.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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Marguerite St. Just married Sir Percy Blakeney one fine day, just like that, without any warning to her friends, without a SOIREE DE CONTRAT or DINER DE FIANCAILLES or other appurtenances of a fashionable French wedding.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel
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