Meaning

2 senses
  1. A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.

  2. (dated, in the plural, often)Any trifling ornament.

    cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

Origin

Perhaps an alteration of falbala (“furbelow”), from French.

Perhaps an alteration of falbala (“furbelow”), from French.

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Forms

plural: fallals
Singularfallal
Pluralfallals

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedfallalery

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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