trappings

Noun

trappings pl (plural only)

1. (plural, plural-only) Clothing or equipment.
   • He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth.
2. (plural, plural-only) Something which gives the appearance of something.
   • Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
   • Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the...2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN
3. (plural, plural-only) Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.