trappings

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Etymology 1

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From trapping.

Noun

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trappings pl (plural only)

  1. Clothing or equipment.
    He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth.
  2. 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[1]:
      The second half was not a siege of the England goal but it had the trappings of it.
  3. Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.
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Etymology 2

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From trap.

Noun

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trappings

  1. plural of trapping

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