What does "trapes" mean?
Trapes: A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Additional senses
- 2.To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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