fallals

Wherever she went she had, if not the finest, at any rate the most showy gown in the room; her ornaments were the biggest; her hats, toques, berets, marabouts, and other fallals, always the most conspicuous.

Mens Wives 2006

The third amusement was the fallals of our maids, who were much more ill and helpless than their mistresses.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

Without being exactly close in money matters he was the most guarded of the clan, partly no doubt because he had more children and partly because of a certain austerity which had little patience with fashion and fallals, and believed almost pitilessly in work being good for the human being.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

Annie sitting there as motionless as the tombstone, and with all her best fallals upon her, after stowing away the dishes.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Five hundred a year, indeed, to throw away in fallals!

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

Besides, should one of those spiteful little inventions succeed in getting near an ironclad without being seen and sunk, the torpedo nets of the ship would prevent the infernal machine, as these new - fashioned fallals were called in the old days, from exploding against her hull.

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

He'd spend money on you -- fine dresses, trinkets, fallals and all that, but a wedding ring, the parson -- not a bit of it.

Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce

She had long ago forsaken her girlish waist band of royal blue esteeming such fallals better suited to the children of the fleet.

Men of Affairs Roland Pertwee

As you are getting on, Marjory, it will be nice for you to have a maid of your own to look after your fallals; but the question is, Do you like the girl well enough to have her about you?

Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke

Mine are marked C.M.H., and they're sensible things-not expensive Paris fallals.

Murder on the Orient Express Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1933