A showy or frivolous ornament, trinket, or piece of finery.
Origin uncertain, possibly from reduplication of 'fall' or influenced by Italian 'fallal.' First appeared in 17th-century English to describe decorative but impractical items, particularly in fashion and jewelry.
Fallals were the ultimate status symbol for wealthy women in the 1600s—the more useless but beautiful your ornaments, the more it proved you didn't need to work, making them basically the ancestor of modern luxury brand logos.
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