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  • noun ornamental objects of no great value

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Examples

  • If we drop all this falderol of multi-mission and focus on the Moon, you reduce the costs for attaining you goal.

    Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch 2009

  • Her vocals are appreciably understated, without any pseudo-Gospel falderol or excessive scat.

    Refining Classic Sounds Will Friedwald 2011

  • Remember all that falderol about SCO being contractually unable to show us the code, much as it so desired to do so, because of being bound to confidentiality requirements?

    Where Sun Doesn't Shine glyn moody 2008

  • Yaron Galai over at Web X.0 makes an excellent point about this attention falderol:

    A handful of stuff 2007

  • Yaron Galai over at Web X.0 makes an excellent point about this attention falderol:

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • The ABC article is short on detail, but I wonder if today's falderol is just a public airing of this minor regulatory change.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • The ABC article is short on detail, but I wonder if today's falderol is just a public airing of this minor regulatory change.

    Stephen Conroy storms into censorship teacup 2007

  • For instance, in the case of the 2000 election, instead of the he-said-she-said falderol surrounding the Florida irregularities, we have Electoral Commissions which are not staffed by partisan lackeys so an internal investigation would have been without left-right bickering, and journalists could report the conclusions of that investigation.

    Send in the newsclowns 2005

  • GOLDBERG: OK, look, my problem with this whole Nightline falderol is that it's not so much that Nightline is so wonderful; all these people are basically saying that the rest of the news organization are terrible.

    CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2002 2002

  • My work from home moms and i japheth and bouteloua to griffith falderol chimneysweeper lashing the complex and a eldest discerning to quagga the dog a peril in a breathed gael.

    Rational Review 2009

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