trappings

English

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Etymology 1

From trapping.

Noun

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.

Translations

clothing which gives the appearance

• Finnish: asu (fi)
• French: accoutrement (fr) m
• Swedish: tillbehör (sv), yttre tecken, utstyrsel (sv)

ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse

• Finnish: koristeloimi (covering), koristevaljaat (harness)
• Persian: ستام (fa) (setâm)
• Polish: rząd (pl) m, uprząż (pl) m

Etymology 2

From trap.

Noun

trappings

1. plural of trapping

See also

• trapping

Anagrams

• strapping