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Definition of Trapes
1. n. A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
2. v. i. To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.
Definition of Trapes
1. Verb. (obsolete spelling of traipse) ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete spelling of traipse) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trapes
1. to traipse [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: traipse
Medical Definition of Trapes
1. A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. See: Trape. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trapes
Literary usage of Trapes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report and Transactions (1875)
"Her gown trapes along the floor.'" "trapes-ABOUT. To run about in an untidy,
slovenly manner; to allow the dress to trail on the ground. ..."
2. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1875)
"Her gown trapes along the floor.'" "trapes-ABOUT. To run about in an untidy,
slovenly manner; to allow the dress to trail on the ground. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"No doubt, Mr. trapes is quite aware that he is not now in Saratoga, ... I am sure
that neither Mr. nor Mrs. trapes intended to give tho smallest offence. ..."
4. The Definite Object: A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol (1917)
"trapes ACQUIRED A NEW LODGES, DESPITE HEE ELBOWS HE awoke suddenly and sat up to
find ... Mrs. trapes herself was elderly; she was also a woman of points, ..."
5. The Definite Object: A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol (1917)
"trapes ACQUIRED A NEW LODGER, DESPITE HER ELBOWS HE awoke suddenly and sat up to
find ... Mrs. trapes herself was elderly; she was also a woman of points, ..."
6. The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: And the Rev. William by Horace Walpole, William Mason (1851)
"... but unless you know how vast and venerable I thought I remembered it, I cannot
give you the measure of my surprise, but then there was a trapes of a ..."
7. British Theatre: Comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces, from by Owen Williams (1828)
"... trapes. PEACHUM sitting at a Table, with a large Book of Accounts before him.
AIR. — PEACHUM. Each neighbour abuses bis brother: Whore and rogue, ..."
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