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noun sth eaten/drunk with food ADJ. delicious, good, ideal VERB + ACCOMPANIMENT be, make PREP. ~ for/to These wines also make a good accompaniment for vegetarian dishes. music played to go with singing, etc. ADJ. instrumental, musical, orchestral | piano, string, etc. VERB + ACCOMPANIMENT provide | compose, write PREP. to the ~ of She sang to the accompaniment of guitars. | with an ~ I prefer to sing with an accompaniment. sth that happens at the same time ADJ. essential, inevitable, necessary PREP. to the ~ of The women's medical school opened in 1874, to the accompaniment of much ridicule of ‘lady doctors’. | with the ~ of the market, with its inevitable accompaniment of bustle and noise
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