"impedimenta" meaning in English

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          "text": "On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.",
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          "ref": "1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: A Surprise at Didcot”, in Railway Magazine, page 452:",
          "text": "Dashing back to my compartment, I grabbed my impedimenta - what my companion thought of the maniac who alighted at a station only half-way to the first booked stop I don't know ! - got out, hurried under the subway, and was into my 10.45 comfortably before its departure.",
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          "ref": "1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 20:",
          "text": "Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.",
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