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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A kind of frieze or rough-napped cloth, supplied probably from the north of Europe.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete A frieze or rough-napped cloth.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A frieze or rough-napped cloth.

Examples

  • “I set you down in my shop at Norwich you might scarce tell fustian from falding, and know little difference between the velvet of Genoa and the three-piled cloth of Bruges.”

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  • “By my troth! if they were my subjects they would be glad enough to wear falding and leather ere I had done with them.”

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  • “Wrong! why he hath stolen every plack of clothing off my back, if that be a wrong, and hath left me here in this sorry frock of white falding, so that I have shame to go back to my wife, lest she think that I have donned her old kirtle.”

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  • “I doubt not that if I set you down in my shop at Norwich you might scarce tell fustian from falding, and know little difference between the velvet of Genoa and the three-piled cloth of Bruges.”

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