SuaviloquyToday’s word

accouterments

Accouterments, Accoutrements, n. pl.

Etymology: [F. accoutrement, earlier also accoustrement, earlier also accoustrement. See Accouter.]

Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war!

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for accouterments; he lists it under arms, caparison.

Where he writes about it:

We speak also of the accouterments of a soldier. — from caparison