trappings
noun C2- Clothing or equipment. · He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth.
- Something which gives the appearance of something.
- Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.
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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?”
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.
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