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panoply


noun, plural pan·o·plies.

  1. a wide-ranging and impressive array or display: the dazzling panoply of the maharaja’s procession; the panoply of European history.
  2. a complete suit of armor.
  3. a protective covering.
  4. full ceremonial attire or paraphernalia; special dress and equipment.

noun plural -plies

  1. a complete or magnificent array
  2. the entire equipment of a warrior

n.1570s, from Greek panoplia “complete suit of armor,” from pan- “all” (see pan-) + hopla (plural), “arms” of a hoplites (“heavily armed soldier”); see hoplite. Originally in English figurative, of “spiritual armor,” etc. (a reference to Eph. vi); non-armorial sense of “any splendid array” first recorded 1829.

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