Obs. [f. BE- 1 + TRAP v.2] trans. To furnish (a horse, etc.) with trappings; to deck, adorn. lit. and fig.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., XXVII. lviii. Wyth haute courage betrapped fayre and gaye.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., Wks. 1883, I. 4, note. Was neuer whore of Babylon so betrapt with abhominations.
1597. R. Johnson, Sev. Champ., I. xii. 87. A sable-coloured steed, betrapped with bars of burnished gold.
