Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRAP'PINGS, n. [plur. from trap. The primary sense is that which is set, spread or put on.]

1. Ornaments of horse furniture. Caparisons and steeds, / Bases and tinsel trappings. Milton.
2. Ornaments; dress; external and superficial decorations. These but the trappings and the snits of woe. Shak. Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. Dryden. Affectation is part of the trappings of folly. Rambler.