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Trappings

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Clothing or equipment. plural, plural-only

    "He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth."

  2. 2
    plural of trapping form-of, plural
  3. 3
    (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel wordnet
  4. 4
    Something which gives the appearance of something. plural, plural-only

    "Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh."

  5. 5
    Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons. plural, plural-only

Etymology

Etymology 1

From trapping.

Etymology 2

From trap.

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