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Webster 1913 Edition
Trapes
Trapes
,Verb.
I.
To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.
[Colloq.]
Thackeray.
Webster 1828 Edition
Trapes
TRAPES
,Noun.
Definition 2024
trapes
trapes
English
Verb
trapes (third-person singular simple present trapeses, present participle trapesing, simple past and past participle trapesed)
- Obsolete spelling of traipse
Noun
trapes (plural trapeses)
- Obsolete spelling of traipse
Etymology 2
See trape.
Noun
trapes
- (obsolete, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
- Hudibras
- He found the sullen trapes / Possest with th' devil, worms, and claps.
- Gay
- From door to door I'd sooner whine and beg, / Than marry such a trapes.
- Young
- Since full each other station of renown, / Who would not be the greatest trapes in town?
- Hudibras