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fallals

fallals is the plural 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

Questions about fallals

What is fallals the plural of?
Fallals is the plural of fallal.

Words near fallals in the dictionary

  1. fallacy of composition
  2. Fallagate
  3. fallal
  4. fallaleries
  5. fallalery
  6. fallals
  7. Fallas
  8. Fallases
  9. fallaway
  10. fallaways
  11. fallax

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