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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Setting off or adorning for display.

Noun.

Ostentatious display of dress.

pranking

pranking ‎(plural prankings)

(archaic) A showy adornment.
(archaic) The playing of pranks; tomfoolery.
- 1933, The Commonweal (volume 19, page 241)
  So they have trooped forth to organize village down-and-outs and ne'er-do-wells into would-be combat units. If this is the case, then like most other collegiate prankings, the show has turned out to be both trite and puny, deceiving no one […]