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Definition of Falderal
1. nonsense [n -S] - See also: nonsense
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falderal
Literary usage of Falderal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Glasgow and Its Environs: Historical and Topographical by Robert Reid (1864)
"Do like them, you Highland drover, falderal, falderal, falay." But I must now
give the original bill of fare:— " Glasgow Mercury, 2d June, 1785. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"falderal & Son's window, or being taken by female friends to the establishment
of that enterprising concern, shopping. Imagino the assistants behind the ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by William Brown, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Robert Henley Eden Henley (1819)
"Even hi the case of indelible sovereignty, as between the King of Great Britain
and the [ 298 ] Nabob, if the matter was not of a falderal nature, ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"I. nothing, bagatelle, folderol or falderal, fillip, fig, fico (archaic), straw,
bean, fiddle-faddle (chiefly in pi. ..."
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