fallal

English

Alternative forms

• fal-lal

Etymology

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

Noun

fallal (plural fallals)

1. A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.
2. Any trifling ornament.
   • 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, Men's Wives‎^[1], New York: D. Appleton & Company, page 122:

     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.

Derived terms

• fallalery

Further reading

• “fallal”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Hungarian

Etymology

fal (“wall”) +‎ -val (“with”, instrumental case ending)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒlːɒl]
• Hyphenation: fal‧lal

Noun

fallal

1. instrumental singular of fal