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fal-lal

fal-lal is the alternative form of fallal.

Meaning of fallal

Noun

fallal (plural fallals)

  1. A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.
  2. (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.1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, Men's Wives, New York: D. Appleton & Company, page 122

Forms of fal-lal

pluralfal-lals

Questions about fal-lal

What is fal-lal the alternative form of?
Fal-lal is the alternative form of fallal.

Words near fal-lal in the dictionary

  1. Fakofo
  2. fakon
  3. faky
  4. Fakémon
  5. fal
  6. fal-lal
  7. fal-lals
  8. Fala
  9. Falabella
  10. falafel
  11. falafels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fal-lal (page history and authors); fallal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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