Definition of "trapeze" []

• A short horizontal bar suspended from two parallel ropes, used for gymnastic exercises or for acrobatic stunts. (noun)
• An article of women's clothing, such as a jacket, dress, or coat, that is cut so as to hang down from the shoulders and swing out and away around the hips and legs. (noun)

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• "There also is "what we call a trapeze jump" on one of the eastern towers, Hale said - a trapeze bar suspended about 7 feet from the tower, about chest high."
• "There also is "what we call a trapeze jump" on one of the eastern towers, Hale said - a trapeze bar suspended about seven feet from the tower, about chest high."
• "Joe started for the animal tent, and then remembered that he needed in his act that day a certain short trapeze, the ends of the ropes being provided with hooks that caught over the bar of another trapeze."