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‖ faldetta|falˈdɛtə|
Also in quasi-Fr. form faldette.
[It. faldetta, dim. of falda: see faldella.]
A combined hood and cape, worn by women in Malta.
1834Sir F. B. Head Bubbles fr. Brunnen 191 Women, semi-shrouded in their black silk faldettes. 1866Blackmore Cr. Nowell xii (1881) 48 A maiden with the love dream nestling beneath the bridal faldetta. 1883C. D. Warner Roundabout Journ. xiii. 119 All the Maltese ladies..wear the faldetta to church. |