Trappings

Quick meaning: Trappings is a noun meaning Clothing or equipment.

Meaning

Clothing or equipment.

More Meanings

1. Something which gives the appearance of something.
2. Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.
3. plural of trapping

Example Sentences

He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth.

The second half was not a siege of the England goal but it had the trappings of it.

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 issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.

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 the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.

Synonyms for trappings

Depending on context, synonyms include furnishings.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include furnishings, ornaments, marks, adornments, attributes, booby-traps.

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