\Eq"ui*page\ (?; 48), n. [F. ['e]quipage, fr.
['e]quiper. See {Equip}.]
1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental;
   especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel,
   fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the
   furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or
   a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for
   efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments;
   attire.
         Did their exercises on horseback with noble
         equipage.                             --Evelyn.
         First strip off all her equipage of Pride. --Pope.
2. Retinue; train; suite. --Swift.
3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that
   accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a
   showy turn-out.
         The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown
         in the settlement of New Amsterdam.   --W. Irving.