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Appurtenance
noun
An appendage added to something else.
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Ram, appurtenance fixed to the front end of a fighting vessel and designed to damage enemy ships when struck by it.
Airspace is now generally accepted as an appurtenance of the subjacent territory and shares the latter's legal status.
There were, of course, millions of men with toothbrush mustaches, but the choice by a performer or politician to keep or discard a symbolic appurtenance is never accidental.
Southern Louisiana is the site of many environmental depredations, but one of them will never be a feeling of locked-down sterility as an appurtenance of human habitation.
What's more, the depiction of childhood is thin and conventional: Simon is devoid of depth and whimsy, a mere script appurtenance.
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She blossomed into dramatic hats, gloves and the other appurtenances of a rising political star.
Owner Judy Kaminsky calls it "Recycled Gourmet Appurtenances", and has growled at browsers for over 30 years.
He shares the scene with a more dynamic figure, a young dwarf whose apple and rattle parody the appurtenances of kingship and who lessens the scene's grandiosity.
In order to function properly, a water distribution system requires several types of fittings, including hydrants, shutoff valves, and other appurtenances.
Among the appurtenances of traveling shows and miracle plays, dating from the earlier phase of European folk art, was the hobbyhorse, which had a counterpart in festival performances in India.
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