[f. TRAP sb.2] trans. To adorn (a horse, mule, or the like) with trappings; to caparison. (Chiefly in pa. pple.) Rarely (in 19th c.) said in reference to a man.
13[?]. [see TRAPPED ppl. a.2].
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XIV. 289. The scottis all on fut war then, And thai on stedis trappit weill.
c. 1420. Brut, 347. A mylke-white stede, sadelled and brydilled, & trapped with white cloth of golde. Ibid., 373. Al þe horsses drawyng þe chare were trappid yn blak.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Rich. III., 25 b. His horse trapped in blew veluet enbroudered with the naues of cartes burnyng of gold.
1621–3. Middleton & Rowley, Changeling, I. i. Call your servants up, And help to trap your horses.
1631. Heywood, Eng. Eliz. (1641), 63. The Lady Elisabeth … rode in a chariot … drawn with six horses trapt in cloth of silver.
1826. Hor. Smith, Tor Hill (1838), I. 29. Dudley hastily trapped himself for the field.
b. transf. and fig.
c. 1412. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 489. Drapers and … skinners … For suche folk han a special orisoune, That trapped is withe curses … til they be payed for her gere.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron. (1807), III. 345. One Agnes Daintie a butterwife … being first trapped with butter dishes, was then set on the pillorie.
1590. Marlowe, 2nd Pt. Tamburl., I. i. Fair Europe … Trapt with the wealth and riches of the world.
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., III. 178. A Prophecy so trapped with the ornaments of speech.
1903. Daily Chron., 10 April, 5/1. The old mess jacket was a gorgeous affair of innumerable gold buttons, with a gay scarlet waistcoat, also trapped with gold.
Trap, v.3: see under TRAP sb.4
