panoply
IPA: pˈænɑpɫi
noun
- A splendid display of something.
- (by extension, historical) A collection or display of weaponry.
- Ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories.
- (historical) A complete set of armour.
- (by extension) Something that covers and protects.
- (by extension) A broad or full range or complete set.
verb
- To fit out in a suit of armour
- To array or bedeck
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Examples of "panoply" in Sentences
- I ` m going to go look up the word panoply or whatever it was.
- Hasan a steed of the best and equipped him in panoply and weaponed him with goodly weapons.
- The fact that Harlequin, Virtue and Pleasure are incorporated into the list suggests that the entire panoply is understood to be similarly fanciful.
- The Doctor had spent the night in devotion, and came from his oratory clad in that celestial panoply which is proof against the terrors of military array.
- Votes were passed for deposing the Four Hundred, and placing the government in the hands of the 5000, of whom every citizen who could furnish a panoply might be a member.
- It was just like a Hollywood movie and it was something that people in England have not seen for a long time and I don't think that anybody had had that kind of panoply of grandeur.
- "Social welfare" was defined as a panoply of expenditures, including health care, housing support, unemployment benefit, disability allowances, family support and help for job seekers.
- The Greeks, among other weapons (such as bow and arrow), military tools and machines which they were implicating in war, were using most often for a body to body combat swords and spears and possibly less often axes, and of course they were protecting their bodies by using a "panoply" of defensive tools and clothing.
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