Lexicographical Neighbors of Falbalas
Literary usage of Falbalas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts ...by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto (1827)
"It is found in gravel-pits ; be- falbalas, sm a furbelow, L flounce, ... Falerno,
sm muscadine, a rich ing- an hemispherical figure, Ornar com falbalas,to ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... powdered poetry of the eighteenth century— that literature in paniers, pompons
and falbalas. They give an admirable resume of an age with which the ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"On the right side of my head the hair is all gray; my teeth break and fall out;
I have got my face wrinkled like the falbalas of a petticoat; ..."
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