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trapping
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: caparison , trappings , housing , housings ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. An instance of ensnaring something or someone. vb. (present participle of trap English) Etymology 2 n. An ornamental covering or harness for a horse; caparison.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Usage examples of trapping.
I took it in both of mine and pressed the gnarled fingers back, rubbing my thumb gently over the thickened palmar aponeurosis that was trapping the tendons.
Nebula, their leaves and branchlets trapping starlight, the nourishment of drifting plants and animals, the moisture of fat rain clouds.
Jenks for trapping him in the bilboes and the brank, was not among them.
The boy was too young to be afraid of death and all its trappings, and was swinging from the effigy of the Dark King, Burnie Dhoone.
A new Inceptine order was being organized, and in fact all the trappings and facets of the old Church were here being duplicated at high speed, so that the Macrobians might be considered worthy rivals to the unenlightened of Charibon.
The walls were covered with fine paneling, the servants noted often, not the spidersilk trappings found in older rooms.
The stalwart princeling had carefully removed every jeweled badge from his trappings and, clad in plain, worn leather, with a basket-hilted rapier of common design, could presumably pass as a wandering mercenary warrior without question, at least under cursory inspection.
Church of Sant Juame, where tied just outside the front portal she found a huge, black stallion with silver trappings.
The evil tale was taken up in all its foul trappings, and, upon no better authority than the public voice, it was enshrined in chronicles by every scribbler of the day.
Mechter spun her right round, slammed the chair to a halt, and grabbed both of its arms, trapping Steyn in her seat.
Here the horrid creature squatted, surrounded by a hundred slave maidens sparkling in jewelled trappings.
How deadly like this sky, these fields, these treen, To trappings of the tomb!
The Tropicana, The Taj Mahal, the trappings of Las Vegas, she drove without seeing it.
I told you he was unimpressed with the trappings of rank and authority.
THOUGH life in the courtyard of the Lady Aiee might have luxurious outer trappings, it was not, Ray discovered, an idle one for any of them.