trappings

Clothing or equipment.

Noun plural, 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.
    • 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...
    • Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It...
    • The second half was not a siege of the England goal but it had the trappings of it. - 2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in The Guardian:
  3. Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.

Origin

From trapping.

Noun form of, plural

  1. plural of trapping

Origin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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