trappings en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From trapping.
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) Clothing or equipment.
He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth.
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(plural, plural-only) Something which gives the appearance of something.
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.
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:Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.
2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN:The second half was not a siege of the England goal but it had the trappings of it.
2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in The Guardian:
- (plural, plural-only) Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.
Translations (16)
sv tillbehör (clothing which gives the appearance) · pl odzienie (clothing which gives the appearance) · fa ستام (ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse) · fi koristeloimi (ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse) · pl oznaka (something which gives the appearance of something) · es ribetes (something which gives the appearance of something) · fr accoutrement (clothing which gives the appearance) · fi asu (clothing which gives the appearance) · es pergeño (something which gives the appearance of something) · sv yttre tecken (clothing which gives the appearance) · fi koristevaljaat (ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse) · es asomo (something which gives the appearance of something) · pl rząd (ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse) · pl uprząż (ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse) · sv utstyrsel (clothing which gives the appearance) · es pergenio (something which gives the appearance of something)