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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...
- 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****...
- psychological drama. Shakespeare's problem plays eschew the traditional trappings of both comedy and tragedy, and are sometimes cited as early predecessors...
- 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...
- 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...
- particular significance for its detailed rendering of contemporary horse trappings, and has been designated an Important Cultural Property. Although horses...
- the West, and a presentation of Buddhism largely devoid of traditional trappings. Trungpa po****rized the term "crazy wisdom", referring to some spiritual...
- some flaws, "At its best, The Creep Tapes transcends its content-mill trappings and becomes something approaching a work of art." Meagan Navarro of Bloody...
- the 95th-greatest comic book hero of all time, stating that he has the trappings of a great comic book hero. Like many of Erik L****n's characters, the...
- Daunno released his debut 3-song EP of original music called "Adulterated Trappings". He lists Jeff Buckley and Radiohead to be among his musical influences...