falbala

[fal-buh-luh]

fal·ba·la

[fal-buh-luh]
noun
a furbelow or puckered flounce for decorating dresses in the 17th century.
Also, fal·be·lo [fal-buh-loh] .


Origin:
1695–1705; < French < Italian. See furbelow
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Falbala is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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falbala (ˈfælbələ)
 
n
a gathered flounce, frill, or ruffle
 
[C18: from French, from (dialect) ferbelà; see furbelow]

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