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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From trapping.
Noun
trappings pl (plural only)
- Clothing or equipment.
He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth.
- Something which gives the appearance of something.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC: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.
2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in Guardian:The second half was not a siege of the England goal but it had the trappings of it.
- Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.
Translations
clothing which gives the appearance
ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse
Etymology 2
From trap.
Noun
trappings
- plural of trapping
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