Fallal
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.
- 2 cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing wordnet
- 3 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Perhaps an alteration of falbala (“furbelow”), from French.
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