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Definition of Traipses

1. traipse [v] - See also: traipse

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Traipses

trainmen trains trainway trainways trainwheel rhythm train depot train dispatcher train fare train of thought train oil

train set train station train ticket traipse traipsed traipses (current term) traipsing trait trait traitor

traitoress traitoresses traitorous traitorously traitorousness traitors traitress traitress traitresses traits

Literary usage of Traipses

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

1. New Cosmopolis: A Book of Images. Intimate New York. Certain European Cities by James Huneker (1915)
"You are informed by the inevitable busybody who traipses after strangers that the old boat is now for tuberculosis patients, living or dying, ..."

2. The Nantucket Scrap Basket: Being a Collection of Characteristic Stories and by Sons and Daughters of Nantucket (1916)
"To say that a woman "traipses" up and down Main street comes dangerously near slander on our island. "Whittle"—There seems to be no good authority for our ..."

3. The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley: In which the Poems, Including a by James Whitcomb Riley, Edmund Henry Eitel (1913)
"Out o' the wet black woods an' swamps In she traipses an' trails an' tromps— With her old sunbonnet all floppy an' brown, ..."

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