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Webster 1913 Edition


Trapes

Trapes

,
Noun.
[See
Trape
.]
A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
[Obs. or Colloq.]

Trapes

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Verb.
I.
To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.
[Colloq.]
Thackeray.

Webster 1828 Edition


Trapes

TRAPES

,
Noun.
A slattern; an idle sluttish woman.

Definition 2024


trapes

trapes

English

Verb

trapes (third-person singular simple present trapeses, present participle trapesing, simple past and past participle trapesed)

  1. Obsolete spelling of traipse

Noun

trapes (plural trapeses)

  1. Obsolete spelling of traipse

Etymology 2

See trape.

Noun

trapes

  1. (obsolete, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
    • Hudibras
      He found the sullen trapes / Possest with th' devil, worms, and claps.
    • Gay
      From door to door I'd sooner whine and beg, / Than marry such a trapes.
    • Young
      Since full each other station of renown, / Who would not be the greatest trapes in town?

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