trapping
/ˈtɹæpɪŋ/ noun B2- An instance of ensnaring something or someone.
- The capturing of furbearing animals in traps so as to harvest them for their pelts.
Plural trappings
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War was again proclaimed, however, and when the trumpet summoned him to his standard, the Soldier put on his charger its military trappings, and mounted, being clad in his heavy coat of mail.
A HORSE, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway.
The Ass, seeing him drawing a dungcart, thus derided him: “Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who are thyself reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?”
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