trapes (third-person singular simple present trapeses, present participle trapesing, simple past and past participle trapesed)
Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI
trapes (plural trapeses)
Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI
trapes
(seldom in use since about WWII, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, treaps
Source: Wiktionary
Trapes, n. Etym: [See Trape.]
Definition: A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Trapes, v. i.
Definition: To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
Trape, v. i. Etym: [See Tramp, and cf. Traipse.]
Definition: To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 December 2024
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
