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Trapes

Trapes \Trapes\, n. [See Trape.] A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Trapes

Trapes \Trapes\, v. i. To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.]
--Thackeray.

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trapes

Etymology 1 n. (obsolete spelling of traipse English) vb. (obsolete spelling of traipse English) Etymology 2

n. (context obsolete colloquial English) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.

Usage examples of "trapes".

What I say is, she ain't got no call to go trapesing off to nurse them dratted brats of Polly's!