fallal

plural fallals · alternative fal-lal

1. A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.
2. datedin pluraloftenAny trifling ornament.

   I should be ashamed to coddle myself as you do! And yet I am old. I need looking after. And there! there! fitting up gowns! fallals!

   1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter V, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part III, page 301

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   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

   He would pay her bills, you know, and even that with a good deal of reluctance and asking what she wanted all those fal-lals for—so like a man—

   1926, Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd