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Definition of Traipses
1. traipse [v] - See also: traipse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Traipses
Literary usage of Traipses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Cosmopolis: A Book of Images. Intimate New York. Certain European Cities by James Huneker (1915)
"You are informed by the inevitable busybody who traipses after strangers that
the old boat is now for tuberculosis patients, living or dying, ..."
2. The Nantucket Scrap Basket: Being a Collection of Characteristic Stories and by Sons and Daughters of Nantucket (1916)
"To say that a woman "traipses" up and down Main street comes dangerously near
slander on our island. "Whittle"—There seems to be no good authority for our ..."
3. The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley: In which the Poems, Including a by James Whitcomb Riley, Edmund Henry Eitel (1913)
"Out o' the wet black woods an' swamps In she traipses an' trails an' tromps— With
her old sunbonnet all floppy an' brown, ..."
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