fallal
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps an alteration of falbala (“furbelow”), from French.
Noun edit
fallal (plural fallals)
- A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.
- Any trifling ornament.
- 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, Men's Wives[1], New York: D. Appleton & Company, page 122:
- 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.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “fallal”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
fal (“wall”) + -val (“with”, instrumental case ending)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fallal