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
- A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.
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noun
- A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.
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(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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