fallal
Noun
A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.
Any trifling ornament.
Usage- Dated
- in-plural
- often
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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.
I should be ashamed to coddle myself as you do! And yet I am old. I need looking after. And there! there! fitting up gowns! fallals!
He would pay her bills, you know, and even that with a good deal of reluctance and asking what she wanted all those fal-lals for—so like a man—
Noun
cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
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Word forms
fallalsfal-lal