Indeed, the procedures and trappings of the hunt were adapted for military purposes. |
As a thorough break from London's quotidian chaos, whilst retaining all the trappings of urban civilisation, I can recommend it thoroughly. |
The fences and barriers, speed bumps and empty watchmen's huts are the trappings of wealth, the buffers of avarice. |
And the president's habit of roughing people up with jocular derision doesn't work as well when the trappings of power aren't all around him. |
Now, in our new climate of national affluence, wealth and all its trappings seem available to anybody determined enough to have them. |
It also includes used animal trappings such as harnesses, saddles, halters, reins, rope and chain. |