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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: caparison, trapping, housing]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from gerund of trappen — more at trap Date: 14th century 1. caparison 1 — usually used in plural 2. plural outward decoration or dress ; ornamental equipment 3. plural outward signs <conventional men with all the trappings…of banality — Robert Plank>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.