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.