Literary notes about Traipse (AI summary)
The term traipse is often used to suggest a kind of wandering or trudging movement, frequently with a hint of reluctance or aimlessness. In some contexts, it conveys the notion of an unhurried—or even burdensome—journey undertaken on foot, as when a character laments being forced to traipse through harsh conditions or vast distances ([1], [2]). In other settings it carries a casual, almost folksy tone of simply moving from one place to another, whether it’s meandering through urban landscapes or traversing the countryside ([3], [4]). The word is also employed with a regional or dialectal flavor, enhancing character voices and imbuing the narrative with authenticity and light humor ([5], [6]).
- Secretly, I felt it all to be a big nuisance to be dragged out from my warm, comfortable bed to traipse through the snow at that time of the night.
— from Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart - However, th’ ‘lt miss thy prayers for such an honest knight’s welfare, and I have to traipse seaward many miles.’
— from A Changed Man, and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy - She's gone on that young Sawyer, and she only started in on the thing so she could have a chance to traipse around the country with him.
— from Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks by Charles Felton Pidgin - She could traipse all over lower Manhattan Saturdays, shopping for herbs in Chinatown and shoes in SoHo .
— from Syndrome by Thomas Hoover - We hain’t never done nothin’ but be shiftless and traipse around since Mother died.”
— from Catty Atkins by Clarence Budington Kelland - Goodness knows where you may have dropped it, and if you think I'm going to traipse back you're much mistaken.
— from A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Angela Brazil
