Trappings vs Reins - What's the difference?
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Clothing or equipment; that which gives the appearance of something.
Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.
Instances of trapping.
(archaic) The kidneys.
The lower part of the back.
(architecture) The parts of a vault between the crown and the spring or abutment, including, and having especial reference to, the loading or filling behind the shell of the vault.
(rein)
As nouns the difference between trappings and reins
is that trappings is clothing or equipment; that which gives the appearance of something while reins is the kidneys.As a verb reins is
third-person singular of rein.trappings
English
Etymology 1
From (trapping).Noun
(en-plural noun)- He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth.