impedimenta

Noun

Meaning

any structure that makes progress difficult

the baggage and equipment carried by an army

Source: WordNet

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I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea, and the care of it, sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Francis Bacon

We do not go to bed in single pairs even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographiesall the bits and pieces of our unique existences. Angela Carter

A legion on the march brought its own baggage train (impedimenta) and constructed its own camp ( castra ) every evening at the side of the road. Source: Internet

It transported the impedimenta, or baggage of a military column. Source: Internet

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