Definition of Claptraps

1. Noun. (plural of claptrap) ¹

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Definition of Claptraps

1. claptrap [n] - See also: claptrap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Claptraps

clapperboard
clapperboards
clapperclaw
clapperclawed
clapperclawing
clapperclaws
clapperless
clappers
clapping
clappingly
clappings
claps
clapshot
clapt
claptrap
claptraps (current term)
claque
claquer
claquers
claques
claqueur
claqueurs
clarabella
clarabellas
clarain
clarains
claraite
claree
clarence
clarences

Literary usage of Claptraps

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1849)
"At all events, they did not go beyond those ordinary claptraps of so- called liberty, which consisted in tirades of some hundred lines against ' tyrants,' ..."

2. The Spaniard; or, Relvindez and Elzora, a tragedy, and The young country by Simon Gray, Hugh Blair (1839)
"Their pieces, therefore, are what they have been constrained to make them, very much copies of one another, and consisting chiefly of mere claptraps, ..."

3. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1907)
"... utterly destitute of literary merit, but valuable as showing what were then the most successful claptraps for an audience composed of the common people. ..."

4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"... claptraps ; a silly mummery of dividing and debating, which does not in the least, however it may turn, affect his condition. ..."

5. Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835 by James Anthony Froude (1882)
"All must be packed up into epigrammatic contrasts, startling exaggerations, claptraps that will get a plaudit from the galleries ! ..."

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