Nick-nacks; ornaments of small value. (Greek, phalara, metal ornaments for horses, etc.)
“Our god-child passed in review all her gowns, fichus, tags, bobbins, laces, silk stockings, and fallals.”—Thackeray: Vanity Fair, chap. vi. p. 38.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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