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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

pl.

[From

to dress with ornaments.]

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.

Shakespeare

Specifically, ornaments to be put on horses.

Caparisons and steeds,
Bases and tinsel

trappings

Milton.

Noun.

plu.

[from trap. The primary sense is that which is set, spread or put on.]

Ornaments of horse furniture.

Caparisons and steeds,

Bases and tinsel trappings--

Ornaments; dress; external and superficial decorations.

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Trappings of life, for ornament, not use.

Affectation is part of the trappings of folly.