fallal

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6

Definition of fallal

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.
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noun

  1. A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.
  2. (dated, in-plural, often)Any trifling ornament.
    “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.”
    “I should be ashamed to coddle myself as you do! And yet I am old. I need looking after. And there! there! fitting up gowns! fallals!”
    “He would pay her bills, you know, and even that with a good deal of reluctance and asking what she wanted all those fal-lals for—so like a man—”

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Etymology

Perhaps an alteration of falbala (“furbelow”), from French.

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