Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trapping"
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) 1.7 (wn)
trapping
n : stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse,
especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: {caparison}, {trappings},
{housing}, {housings}]
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