Equipment, furnishings, or supplies; particularly military gear, ammunition, or decorative accessories for horses and armor.
From Old French fourniture, meaning supplies or equipment, derived from the verb fournir meaning to furnish or supply. This term was especially common in English for describing military equipment and horse trappings from the medieval period onward.
In heraldry and military records, 'fourniture' specifically meant all the decorative and functional gear on a horse—saddles, bridles, stirrups—and it was so important that detailed lists of what constituted proper fourniture were recorded for different ranks of nobility and soldiers.
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