'Trapping' definitions:

Definition of 'trapping'

(from WordNet)
noun
Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: caparison, trapping, housing]

Definition of 'Trapping'

From: GCIDE
  • Trap \Trap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Trapping.] [Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.] To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. [1913 Webster]
  • Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]