Definition of Attrap

1. v. t. To entrap; to insnare.

2. v. t. To adorn with trapping; to array.

Definition of Attrap

1. to adorn with trappings [v ATTRAPPED, ATTRAPPING, ATTRAPS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Attrap

attractive(a)
attractive feature
attractive force
attractive nuisance
attractive nuisances
attractively
attractiveness
attractivenesses
attractivity
attractor
attractors
attracts
attrahens
attrahent
attrahents
attrap (current term)
attrapped
attraps
attrectation
attrib
attributable
attributable fraction
attributable risk
attribute
attributed
attributee
attributees
attributeness
attributes
attributing

Literary usage of Attrap

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"attrap. To entrap. (Fr.) It sometimes meus to dress, to adorn. See Richardson, in r. The king accompanied with the Dukes of Som. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"attrap. To entrap. (Fr.) It sometimes means to dress, to adorn. See Richardson, ih v. The king accompanied with the Dukes of Somerset and ..."

3. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"... apres luy: il fut fi heureux que d'attrap- per fon petit frere, & le retirer de l'eau par vn autre trou, ..."

4. The Connoisseur by Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, Mr Town, George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1905)
"One of the saucers is decorated in the attrap style, and is exceedingly well painted, but not in character with the rest of the decoration. ..."

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