fallal

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fallal

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

noun fallals · fal-lal

A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.
dated, in plural, often Any trifling ornament. 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.

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@misc{fallal_2026,
  title = {fallal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fallal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}