Accessory /(#; 277)/

Ac·ces·so·ry

Accessory

a.
  1. Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.

Accessory

n.

pl. Accessories

  1. That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
  2. Same as Accessary, n. (Law)
  3. Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. (Fine Arts)