Brewer's: Fal-lals

Nick-nacks; ornaments of small value. (Greek, phalara, metal ornaments for horses, etc.)

“Our god-child passed in review all her gowns flchus, tags, bobbins, laces, silk stockings, and fallals.” —Thackeray: Vanity Fair, chap. vi. p. 38.

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