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appurtenance, appurtenances [uh-pur-tn-uhns, uh-pur-tn-uhns-uhz]

noun:
1 something associated with, accompanying, or belonging to another thing; accessory
2 a right or privilege, outbuilding, or other asset belonging to and passing with a principal property
3 apparatus; equipment
4 belonging, possession, relationship, or origin, or an affix that expresses this

Examples:

The project involves construction of flyovers from Cart Road to Vidhan Sabha, and widening road with retaining wall at Victory Tunnel and protective works (breast walls, toe walls, gabion walls, retaining walls) and traffic safety (with metal beam crash barriers) and road appurtenance (Man Aman Singh Chhina, Landslide risk high, yet Himachal awards tender to build flyover in Shimla, The Indian Express, September 2023)

Between them, these works consumed perhaps a year of Vermeer's labor - a scrupulous rendering of bourgeois appurtenances and a faithful imagining of internal lives, which might better be described as an act of devotion. (Rebecca Mead, The Ultimate Vermeer Collection, The New Yorker, February 2023)

She would never have dreamed of showing her dolls to her cousins; but she brought them out and displayed them to Gavan, and he looked at them and their appurtenances carefully, gravely assenting to all the characteristics that she pointed out. (Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Shadow of Life)

He cracked his knuckles and sat down, sorting out his writing appurtenances. Putting his elbows on the table, he bent his head on one side, thought a minute, and began to write, without pausing for a second. (Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina)

The Zulus hold that a dead body can cast no shadow, because that appurtenance departed from it at the close of life. (Charles Hardwick, Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore (Chiefly Lancashire and the North of England:) Their affinity to others in widely-distributed localities; Their Eastern Origin and Mythical Significance)

Origin:

c1300, 'right, privilege or possession subsidiary to a principal one,' especially in law, 'a right, privilege, or improvement belonging to a property,' from Anglo-French apurtenance (12c), Old French apartenance, apertenance, present participle of apartenir 'be related to,' from Late Latin appertinere 'to pertain to, belong to,' from Latin ad 'to' + pertinere 'belong; be the right of' (Online Etymology Dictionary)