trappings
/tɹˈæpɪŋz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something which gives the appearance of something.
noun
Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.
Example Sentences
- "He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth."
- "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."
- "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."
- "The second half was not a siege of the England goal but it had the trappings of it."
Etymology
From trapping.