Trappings
noun ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Clothing or equipment. plural, plural-only
"He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth."
- 2 plural of trapping form-of, plural
- 3 (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel wordnet
- 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 Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons. plural, plural-only
Example
More examples"Her life has all the trappings of privilege."
Etymology
From trapping.
From trap.
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