different between drapes vs trapes

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?ps/

Noun

drapes

1. plural of drape

Noun

drapes pl (plural only)

1. Heavy cloth hung over a window.

Synonyms

• curtains

Translations

Verb

drapes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drape

Anagrams

• Padres, Persad, dreaps, padres, parsed, rasped, repads, spader, spared, spread

French

Verb

drapes

1. second-person singular present indicative of draper
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of draper

Anagrams

• d'après

English

Etymology 1

Obscure, as is common among colloquialisms. OED mentions possible association with Dutch trappen, to tread or stamp the foot, but objects that the connection is unconvincing.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

trapes (third-person singular simple present trapeses, present participle trapesing, simple past and past participle trapesed)

1. Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI

Noun

trapes (plural trapeses)

1. Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI

Etymology 2

See trape.

Noun

trapes

1. (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.

   • 1715, John Gay, The What D'ye Call It

     From door to door I'd sooner whine and beg, / Than marry such a trapes.

   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     Since full each other station of renown, / Who would not be the greatest trapes in town?

Anagrams

• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, treaps