Trăm'p'er-y1, n.
n. [Fr. tromperie, deceit, from tromper, to deceive; O. Sp. trompar.] 1. Deceit; fraud. [Obs.] Britannicus was now grown to man's estate, a true and worthy plant to receive his father's empire, which a grafted son by adoption now possessed by the injury and trumpery of his mother. Greenway. 2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretenses; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. The trumpery in my house bring hither, / For state to catch these thieves. Shak. Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world. Smith.