Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A showy article of dress.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A piece of ribbon, worn with streaming ends as an ornament in the seventeenth century.
- n. Hence Any trifling ornament.
- Finicking; foppish; trifling.
WordNet 3.0
- n. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The lady is a little upon the fallal; a little aunt Nellish; but I protest 1 love her, and reverence her brother.”
“I got a fly, thinking as you'd have some fallal or other on you; but, bless my heart, you could have walked in that gown," he said.”
“--- I think there's been enough the day to gie an awfa 'warning about your cockups and your fallal duds --- see what they a' come to, '' etc.”
“I think there’s been enough the day to gie an awfa’ warning about your cockups and your fallal duds — see what they”
“-- I think there's been enough the day to gie an awfa 'warning about your cockups and your fallal duds -- see what they a' come to, "etc.etc. etc.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘fallal’.
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Madame Bovary
Some good words (chiefly French of origin, and often to do with the medical profession) encountered reading the Aveling translation -- mostly new to me, but a few words that are just worthy of bein...
tulle, argand, friable, corolla, lives of stir, difficile, rime, inveigh, feuilleton, peristyle, refulgence, wainscoting and 98 more...
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beads and trinkets
wampum, sewan, spangly, fusarole, passementerie, knurl, astragal, jequirity, wampumpeag, seawant, rigoll, purfle and 17 more...
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