- a variation of traipse.
trapes
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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The President maneuvered through Congressional bear trapes to get the U.S.'s first Pure Food bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's bad weather to trapes the fells, Rotha.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
It's not for what he did at the wars that the redcoats trapes after him.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
Since full each other station of renown, Who would not be the greatest trapes in town?
From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young
How did we trapes up and down all the realm!
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
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