Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of frieze or rough-napped cloth, supplied probably from the north of Europe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A frieze or rough-napped cloth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
frieze or rough-napped cloth .
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Examples
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By my troth! if they were my subjects they would be glad enough to wear falding and leather ere I had done with them.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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By my troth! if they were my subjects they would be glad enough to wear falding and leather ere I had done with them.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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By my troth! if they were my subjects they would be glad enough to wear falding and leather ere I had done with them.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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I set you down in my shop at Norwich you might scarce tell fustian from falding, and know little difference between the velvet of Genoa and the three-piled cloth of Bruges.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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By my troth! if they were my subjects they would be glad enough to wear falding and leather ere I had done with them.
The White Company 1890
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"I doubt not that if I set you down in my shop at Norwich you might scarce tell fustian from falding, and know little difference between the velvet of Genoa and the three-piled cloth of Bruges.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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"Wrong! why he hath stolen every plack of clothing off my back, if that be a wrong, and hath left me here in this sorry frock of white falding, so that I have shame to go back to my wife, lest she think that I have donned her old kirtle.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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"I doubt not that if I set you down in my shop at Norwich you might scarce tell fustian from falding, and know little difference between the velvet of Genoa and the three-piled cloth of Bruges.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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"I doubt not that if I set you down in my shop at Norwich you might scarce tell fustian from falding, and know little difference between the velvet of Genoa and the three-piled cloth of Bruges.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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"Wrong! why he hath stolen every plack of clothing off my back, if that be a wrong, and hath left me here in this sorry frock of white falding, so that I have shame to go back to my wife, lest she think that I have donned her old kirtle.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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