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falda

American  
[fol-duh] / ˈfɒl də /

noun

  1. a white silk vestment extending from the waist to the ground, worn over the cassock by the pope on solemn occasions.


Etymology

Origin of falda

< Italian < Germanic; fold 1

Example Sentences

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El águila dorada del escudo mexicano estaba bordada en la parte superior de la falda y los lados estaban adornados con piezas metálicas doradas como los trajes tradicionales de los mariachis.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2022

Viví como si no hubiera ocurrido pero no volví a llevar falda durante años.

From BBC • May 1, 2018

The ranch of Major Randolph lay on a rich falda of the Coast Range, and overlooked the great wheat plains that the young girl had just left.

From A Sappho of Green Springs by Harte, Bret

Between the chasm where he stood and the falda of the first low foot-hills neither roof nor wall nor ruin rose above the dull, dead level!

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert

Young Brayton, with half a dozen troopers, had been despatched southwestward along the falda, ordered to search high and low for Lawrence, dead or alive.

From A Trooper Galahad by King, Charles