the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
verb-intransitive. To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To gad or flaunt about idly.
n. A slattern: an idle, sluttish woman; a jade.
n. going about; a tramp.
Word Usage
"Trifling articles, like eggs or radishes, might be smuggled into a brown wicker basket with covers; but it did not consort with elegance to "trapes" home with anything that looked inconvenient or had legs sticking out of it."