Trapes

Trifling articles, like eggs or radishes, might be smuggled into a brown wicker basket with covers; but it did not consort with elegance to "trapes" home with anything that looked inconvenient or had legs sticking out of it. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

The "bad" bonnet must sink the large souled Grecian to a cinder-wench, make the Frenchwoman a trapes from the Palais Royal, our fair astronomer a gipsy of Greenwich Park, and the fate-foretelling sybil ❋ Various (N/A)

It's not for what he did at the wars that the redcoats trapes after him. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

Did ye notiss she never drops his arm when she sees the stage comin ', but kinder trapes along jist the same? ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

She would certainly have sent some trapes of a Muse to press you, had she known what good epigrams you write. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

A Championship course, 18 holes, par 72, 6.066 mètres (Men)/5.235 mètres (Women) This course, that offers wide Fairways dotted with olive trees and sand trapes within a driving range, is indeed a challenge for players of all handicaps. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[illegible] and mingle with the Crowd upon Change, and trapes the ❋ Unknown (1961)

An 'de nigger w'at k'n trapes' round wid pies and not git in no alley-way an 'sample um, den I'm bleedzd ter say dat nigger outniggers me an' my fambly. ❋ Frederick Stuart (1881)

"What, the trulls and the trapes and the saucy footmen! ❋ Charles Edward Pearce (N/A)

I forgot things, never mind what, for I must have some business o 'my own or I wouldn't seem to belong to myself; and so I've got to trapes round considerable, -- money matters and the likes, -- and folks a'n't always ready for you to the minute; therefore count on more time than what's needful, say I. " ❋ Bayard Taylor (1851)

I have somebody to attend to that; but it's such a toil and a trapes up them two pair of stairs for every little thing that's wanted. " ❋ Henry Wood (1850)

"Vet to the skin, thro 'thick and thin, to trapes ain't to my mind; ❋ Robert Seymour (1818)

Dot = Dorothy] British for ` a high-class, well-dressed harlot, 'fr.ca. 1880. tramp contemporary; also used of men in the sense of ` a begging or thieving vagrant.' trapes (usu. ❋ Unknown (1981)