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trapping |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Trap \Trap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trapped}; p. pr & vb n. {Trapping}.] [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. --Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. --Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. --Tennyson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: trapping n : a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: {caparison}, {housing}, {housings}]
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