TRAP'PINGS, n. plu. [from trap. The primary sense is that which is set, spread or put on.]
1. Ornaments of horse furniture.
Caparisons and steeds,
Bases and tinsel trappings--
2. 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.
