trappings
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Still, French president Emmanuel Macron hopes to persuade the impatient American president to stay for a dinner at Versailles on Wednesday evening, playing to the 79-year-old's fascination with monarchy and ornate trappings of luxury.
From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026
Dudamel’s Disney “finale,” however momentous, lacked nearly all the trappings of pomp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
A recent trial in Shorewood, Wis., had all the trappings of a minor legal dispute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
They didn’t do that because they wanted to have the trappings and the veneer of making it look as if it were a real federal case.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
No longer did they try to fit themselves, like paper-doll figures, behind trappings so foreign to their actual lives.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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The Things They Carried
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