trappings

English

trappings pl (plural only)

Clothing or equipment.
He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth.
Something which gives the appearance of something.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
  Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.
- 2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in Guardian‎^[1]:
  The second half was not a siege of the England goal but it had the trappings of it.
Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.

clothing which gives the appearance

ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse

From trap.

trappings