Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Trappings

Trappings , noun, plural

[From Trap to dress with ornaments.]

1.
That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations.
Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. — Dryden
These but the trappings and the suits of woe. — Shakespeare
2.
Specifically, ornaments to be put on horses.
Caparisons and steeds, Bases and tinsel trappings. — Milton