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Trappings vs Contretemps - What's the difference?

trappings | contretemps |

As nouns the difference between trappings and contretemps

is that trappings is clothing or equipment; that which gives the appearance of something while contretemps is an unforeseen, inopportune, or embarrassing event; a hitch.

trappings

English

Etymology 1

From (trapping).

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • Clothing or equipment; that which gives the appearance of something.
    • He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth.
  • Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.

    • Etymology 2

    From (trap).

    Noun

    (head)
  • Instances of trapping.

    • See also

    * trapping

    Anagrams

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    contretemps

    English

    Noun

    (contretemps)
  • An unforeseen, inopportune, or embarrassing event; a hitch
  • (fencing) An ill-timed pass.

    • Quotations

    * 1896 - *: "I see that you are a born American citizen--and an earlier knowledge of that fact would have prevented this little contretemps . You are aware, Mr. Hoffman, that your name is German?" * 1934 - , chapter 12 *: What a strange contretemps'! Its suddenness left me temporarily speechless; the embarrassment of Duare was only too obvious. Yet it was that unusual paradox, a happy ' contretemps --for me at least. * 1960 - " Is Dead Here at 86; Writer was Arbiter of Etiquette", New York Times , September 27 *: Mrs. Post was the center of a notable contretemps when she spilled a spoonful of berries at a dinner of the Gourmet Society here in 1938. * 2004 - Sunday Oregonian , June 13 *: It won't rank with the doping scandals in track and field and baseball's steroid controversy but the Rose Cup race had its own little contretemps last year.

    Synonyms

    * (unforeseen or embarrassing event) hitch, mishap