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trapeses

trapeses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of trapes.

trapeses is the plural of trapes.

Meaning of trapes

Noun

trapes

  1. (colloquial, seldom in use since about WWII) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
    • But when he found the sullen Trapes ¶ Possest with th’ Devil, Worms, and Claps,1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC; republished in...

Questions about trapeses

What is trapeses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Trapeses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of trapes.

Words near trapeses in the dictionary

  1. trapdoors
  2. trape
  3. traped
  4. trapes
  5. trapesed
  6. trapeses
  7. trapesing
  8. trapesings
  9. trapezate
  10. trapeze
  11. trapeze artist

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