fal-lal

The family-plate too, in such quantities, of two or three generations standing, must not be changed, because his precious child, * humouring his old fal-lal taste, admired it, to make it all her own.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Any body, except myself, who could have been acquainted with such a fal-lal courtship as this must have been had it proceeded, would have been glad it had gone on: and I dare say, but for the saucy daughter, it had.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Mother had upon her wrists something very wonderful, of the nature of fal-lal as we say, and for which she had an inborn turn, being of good draper family, and polished above the yeomanry.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Then, at a given signal, Frobisher, caparisoned in every fal-lal he could collect, issued from his hut, and I turned out the improvised guard.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 Various

Miss Latimer wore some lace fal-lal about her neck, and Aunt

Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life Grace Beaumont

"What! this all?" sniffed the old man, fingering the scent-bottle contemptuously -- "gal's fal-lal."

The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

Just by the entrance to the choir an official stopped me, and asked me if I wanted to go and see a lot of fal-lal things he had got on show -- relics and bones, and old masters, and such-like Wardour-street rubbish.

Diary of a Pilgrimage 1893

And, if it were a mere fal-lal, a furbelow of larval coquetry, even that would not surprise me.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

For it's not my intention to marry, says she, and, ma'am, I'm a man of honour or I'd catch you tight, my nut-brown maid, and clap you into a cage, fal-lal, like a squirrel; to trot the wheel of mat-trimony.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

For it's not my intention to marry, says she, and, ma'am, I'm a man of honour or I'd catch you tight, my nut-brown maid, and clap you into a cage, fal-lal, like a squirrel; to trot the wheel of mat-trimony.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868