trapping

• Rhymes: -æpɪŋ

From trap.

trapping

1. present participle of trap

trapping (plural trappings)

1. An instance of ensnaring something or someone.

Middle English trap, trappe (“personal belongings, owndom, household goods”) (compare Middle English trappen "to deck, caparison"), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin trapus (“cloth”), from Frankish *traba, trapa (“cloth, thread, rag”), from Proto-Germanic *trabō, *trafą, *trēb (“fringe, rags”), from Proto-Indo-European *drāp-, *drāb- (“rag”). Akin to Old High German traba (“fringe, tatters, thread”), Old Norse traf (“headscarf”).

trapping (plural trappings)

1. An ornamental covering or harness for a horse; caparison.

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