paraphernalia
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1.
Miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity.
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仅复数drug paraphernalia
He has an impressive collection of bicycling paraphernalia, but he doesn't ride very often anymore.
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2.
Objects that a married woman owns, such as clothing and jewellery, apart from her dowry.
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Borrowed from Medieval Latin paraphernālia (“goods which a wife brings over and above her dowry”), use as noun (short for paraphernālia bona (“paraphernal goods”)) of neuter plural of paraphernālis, from Late Latin parapherna + Latin -ālis (suffix forming adjectives), from Ancient Greek παράφερνα (parápherna), a compound of παρά (pará, “beside”) + φερνή (phernḗ, “dowry”). In the propertied classes, a dowry was placed under the control of the husband, while the paraphernalia which she brought with her remained the wife’s property.
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