Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To gad or flaunt about idly.
- noun A slattern: an idle, sluttish woman; a jade.
- noun going about; a tramp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Colloq. A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
- intransitive verb colloq. To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.
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- verb Obsolete spelling of
traipse . - noun Obsolete spelling of
traipse .
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Examples
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Trifling articles, like eggs or radishes, might be smuggled into a brown wicker basket with covers; but it did not consort with elegance to "trapes" home with anything that looked inconvenient or had legs sticking out of it.
The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan
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The "bad" bonnet must sink the large souled Grecian to a cinder-wench, make the Frenchwoman a trapes from the Palais Royal, our fair astronomer a gipsy of Greenwich Park, and the fate-foretelling sybil
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various
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It's not for what he did at the wars that the redcoats trapes after him.
The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892
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Did ye notiss she never drops his arm when she sees the stage comin ', but kinder trapes along jist the same?
Jeff Briggs's Love Story Bret Harte 1869
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She would certainly have sent some trapes of a Muse to press you, had she known what good epigrams you write.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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A Championship course, 18 holes, par 72, 6.066 mètres (Men)/5.235 mètres (Women) This course, that offers wide Fairways dotted with olive trees and sand trapes within a driving range, is indeed a challenge for players of all handicaps.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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[illegible] and mingle with the Crowd upon Change, and trapes the
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An 'de nigger w'at k'n trapes' round wid pies and not git in no alley-way an 'sample um, den I'm bleedzd ter say dat nigger outniggers me an' my fambly.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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"What, the trulls and the trapes and the saucy footmen!
Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce
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I forgot things, never mind what, for I must have some business o 'my own or I wouldn't seem to belong to myself; and so I've got to trapes round considerable, -- money matters and the likes, -- and folks a'n't always ready for you to the minute; therefore count on more time than what's needful, say I. "
The Story of Kennett Bayard Taylor 1851
brtom commented on the word trapes
The daughter, a tall, trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole ...
Goldsmith, She Stoops, I
January 8, 2007