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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.
- 2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN:
- 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.
- 2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in The 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
something which gives the appearance of something
Etymology 2
From trap.
Noun
trappings
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