trapes
Verb
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Verb
trapes (trapeses, present participle trapesing; 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.
- He found the sullen trapes / Possest with th' devil, worms, and claps.
- From door to door I'd sooner whine and beg, / Than marry such a trapes.
- Since full each other station of renown, / Who would not be the greatest trapes in town?
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