Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A showy article of dress.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of ribbon, worn with streaming ends as an ornament in the seventeenth century.
- noun Hence Any trifling ornament.
- Finicking; foppish; trifling.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The lady is a little upon the fallal; a little aunt Nellish; but I protest 1 love her, and reverence her brother.
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"I got a fly, thinking as you'd have some fallal or other on you; but, bless my heart, you could have walked in that gown," he said.
Phoebe, Junior 1862
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--- I think there's been enough the day to gie an awfa 'warning about your cockups and your fallal duds --- see what they a' come to, '' etc.
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I think there’s been enough the day to gie an awfa’ warning about your cockups and your fallal duds — see what they
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-- I think there's been enough the day to gie an awfa 'warning about your cockups and your fallal duds -- see what they a' come to, "etc.etc. etc.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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