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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...
- inspired creature work can distract from the familiar possession horror trappings here, but it’s also an inoffensive horror effort all around. "Rosario...
- Xanten Horse-Phalerae is the name of a set of Roman silvered bronze horse-trappings found in Xanten, Germany. The set is now in the British Museum's Gr****...
- remarkable amount of horse-trappings, more horse-trappings than any other known kofun. There also appear to be multiple “sets” of trappings in Fujinoki. A set...
- has waned in recent decades. Many trattorie have taken on some of the trappings of a ristorante, providing relatively few concessions to the old rustic...
- psychological drama. Shakespeare's problem plays eschew the traditional trappings of both comedy and tragedy, and are sometimes cited as early predecessors...
- decade to complete. The first two-hour-long episodes Unlikely Warriors and Trappings of Power were released in 1978. The third installment, the 87-minute The...
- the West, and a presentation of Buddhism largely devoid of traditional trappings. Trungpa po****rized the term "crazy wisdom", referring to some spiritual...
- fictional newly independent African nation. This series retained many of the trappings of the film series, included the "Tarzan yell" and Cheeta, but excluded...
- rules of magic rather than the rules of physics. Despite the magical trappings, the Lord Darcy stories play fair as whodunnits; magic is never used to...