Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An ornamental covering or harness for a horse; a caparison.
  • noun Articles of dress or adornment, especially accessories.
  • noun Characteristic or symbolic signs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The housing or harness of a horse, when somewhat ornamental in character; hence, external ornamentation, as of dress: generally in the plural.
  • noun Synonyms Accoutrements, equipments, paraphernalia, gear, decorations, frippery.
  • noun The art. business, or method of a trapper, in any sense.
  • noun In drainage: The process of furnishing with a trap or traps.
  • noun Same as trap, 4; also, traps collectively.
  • noun The cutting of a brilliant in the form known as trap-brilliant. See brilliant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An ornamental covering or harness for a horse; caparison.
  • verb Present participle of trap.
  • noun An instance of ensnaring something or someone.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse

Etymologies

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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, *trafan, *trēb (“fringe, rags”), from Proto-Indo-European *drāp-, *drāb- (“rag”). Akin to Old High German traba ("fringe, tatters, thread"), Old Norse traf ("headscarf").

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From trap.

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