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paraphernalia | American Dictionary

paraphernalia
noun[ U ]
us/ˌpær·ə·fərˈneɪl·jə, -fə-/
a collection of objects, esp. equipment needed for or connected with a particular activity:
photography paraphernalia

Examples of paraphernalia

paraphernalia
The personal paraphernalia provide crucial information about the identities of these people.
It suggests that these items were devoid of their ' political magic ' and regarded as merely personal paraphernalia compared with recognition by the state.
The choice of clothing and paraphernalia makes it clear that the dancers are aware that this is ultimately a collective performance.
It is believed that ritual paraphernalia can only be effective when it is used in prescribed ways and at carefully regulated moments.
Other often cited risk factors crudely confirmed in our study include sharing needles/syringes and other injection paraphernalia.
As mentioned earlier, no ritual paraphernalia is associated archaeologically with any of the specialfunction causeway termini.
Could not the paraphernalia of death have been different on different occasions?
Let's not do any of the normal paraphernalia of theatre.
There was an agenda, even a plan replete with papers and commentators and all the paraphernalia of a working seminar.
Other paraphernalia included a gray slate belt or girdle- over 140 rectangular elements-found around the waist area.
Ritual performances; possible storehouse for feasting and ritual paraphernalia.
Chapter 3 locates the post-war paradigm welfare state in the collective good and a sense of responsibility for the disadvantaged, notwithstanding the limitations of the institutional paraphernalia.
Thankfully his improvised paraphernalia prevailed.
The actress's self-transformation, while utilizing the professional paraphernalia of powder, paint, and costume, depends on an absorption of "detail," on an inner understanding of a theatrical role.
Linked with this is the subconscious acceptance of the involvement of specific memory and the enhanced secondary response, immunoglobulin and all the other paraphernalia of the vertebrate system.
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