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noun
1.
(sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
2.
(used with a plural verb) personal belongings.
3.
(used with a singular verb) Law. the personal articles, apart from dower, reserved by law to a married woman.
Origin:
1470–80; < Medieval Latin paraphernālia (bona) a bride's goods, beyond her dowry, equivalent to Late Latin paraphern(a) a bride's property (< Greek parápherna, equivalent to para- para-1 + phern(ḗ) dowry, derivative of phérein to bear1 + -a neuter plural noun suffix) + Latin -ālia, noun use of neuter plural of -ālis -al1
1470–80; < Medieval Latin paraphernālia (bona) a bride's goods, beyond her dowry, equivalent to Late Latin paraphern(a) a bride's property (< Greek parápherna, equivalent to para- para-1 + phern(ḗ) dowry, derivative of phérein to bear1 + -a neuter plural noun suffix) + Latin -ālia, noun use of neuter plural of -ālis -al1
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Synonyms
1. appointments, appurtenances, accouterments, trappings. 2. effects.
1. appointments, appurtenances, accouterments, trappings. 2. effects.
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Paraphernalia
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Example Sentences
- Women have purses and other paraphernalia and do not want to put them on the floor.
- It features the people, places, and paraphernalia everyone will be talking about in 2005.
- The idea of a cult hit being a powerful force in aftermarket sales of books and paraphernalia was completely unknown — even to me.
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Word Origin & History
paraphernalia
1651, "a woman's property besides her dowry," from M.L. paraphernalia (short for paraphernalia bona "paraphernal goods"), neut. pl. of paraphernalis (adj.), from L.L. parapherna "a woman's property besides her dowry," from Gk. parapherna, neut. pl., from para- "beside" + pherne "dowry," related to pherein
EXPAND"to carry" (see infer). Meaning "equipment, apparatus" is first attested 1791, from notion of odds and ends.
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