paraphernalia
/parr frnayli/ • noun treated as sing. or pl. miscellaneous articles, especially the equipment needed for a particular activity. — ORIGIN originally in the sense ‘property owned by a married woman’: from Latin, from Greek parapherna ‘property apart from a dowry’.
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