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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trappings
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this was a warrior king who had all the trappings but little of the reality of war.
▪ Freed from the trappings of conventional morality, Van Ness is at liberty to invent his own.
▪ I had the trappings of success, of social acceptability.
▪ Such companies are leaving the traditional trappings of corporate existence behind.
▪ The trappings of prominent elected offices do not shield the occupants from the challenges, temptations and failures of daily life.
▪ The large Palace library, Victorian in its solid mahogany trappings, was lightly clad with the Bishop's books.
▪ The rescue was launched early Friday with all the trappings of a crack military operation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trappings

Trappings \Trap"pings\, n. pl. [From Trap to dress with ornaments.]

  1. That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations.

    Trappings of life, for ornament, not use.
    --Dryden.

    These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
    --Shak.

  2. Specifically, ornaments to be put on horses.

    Caparisons and steeds, Bases and tinsel trappings.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trappings

late 14c., "horse-cloth," from Middle English trappe "ornamental cloth for a horse" (c.1300), later "personal effects" (mid-15c.), alteration of Middle French drap "cloth" (see drape (n.)).

Wiktionary
trappings

Etymology 1 n. 1 clothing or equipment; that which gives the appearance of something. 2 ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons. Etymology 2

n. 1 (plural of trapping English) 2 Instances of trapping.

WordNet
trappings

  1. n. accessory wearing apparel [syn: furnishings]

  2. stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: caparison, trapping, housing, housings]

Usage examples of "trappings".

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.

Society, seeing me in the trappings of a married woman, pronounces the Baronne de Macumer much prettier than Louise de Chaulieu: a happy love is a most becoming cosmetic.