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Definition of Trappings

Trappings
Trappings Trap"pings, n. pl. [From Trap to dress with ornaments.] 1. That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations. Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. --Dryden. These but the trappings and the suits of woe. --Shak. 2. Specifically, ornaments to be put on horses. Caparisons and steeds, Bases and tinsel trappings. --Milton.
Trapping
Trap Trap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Trapping.] [Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.] To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. --Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. --Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. --Tennyson.

Meaning of Trappings from wikipedia

- Tack is equipment or accessories equipped on horses and other equines in the course of their use as domesticated animals. This equipment includes such...
- Excavation began in 1985. The tomb yielded gilt-bronze ornaments, horse trappings, and a stone coffin. The tomb's appearance is supplemented by the harness...
- New York Times, 2011 Mar 6 Libyan rebels advance to edge of Tripoli, trappings of Gadhafi's regime crumbling[permanent dead link] Yahoo, accessed 21...
- hot-blooded performances and contemporary resonance, Manhunt transcends the trappings of wax museum recreation to deliver addicting entertainment." Metacritic...
- man who is taken under the wings of two city traders who show him the trappings of big money in the big city but that it comes at a price. Money taken...
- Molière's comedy Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670), which satirizes buying the trappings of a noble-birth identity as the means of climbing the social ladder.[page needed]...
- city of Dystopia after leaving behind his Swellview days. Just as the trappings of fame begin to weigh on him, a transformative twist unfolds with the...
- old section. The new section, now centered on Kızılay Square, has the trappings of a more modern city: wide streets, hotels, theaters, shopping malls...
- celebration of Christmas, considering it a Catholic invention and the "trappings of popery" or the "rags of the Beast". They also objected to Christmas...
- celebration of Christmas, considering it a Catholic invention and the "trappings of popery" or the "rags of the Beast". In contrast, the established Anglican...