trapping
NounUS[trap-ing]/ˈtræpɪŋ/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)trappings
- stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorseSynonyms: caparisonhousingType of stable gear, saddleryKinds bard, horsecloth
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“trapping” is listed under Trap.
Trap transitive verb [past tense & past participle Trapped; present participle & verbal noun Trapping.]
Origin: Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.
To dress with ornaments; to adorn; — said especially of horses.
Steeds... that trapped were in steel all glittering.— Geoffrey Chaucer
To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed.— Edmund Spenser
There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold.— Alfred Tennyson
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54