faule

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English

Pronunciation

Noun

faule (plural faules)

  1. (obsolete) A fall or falling band.
    • 1648, Robert Herrick, “.] The Dirge of Jephthahs Daughter: Sung by the Virgins.”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine , London: John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho Hunt, , →OCLC, stanza 8, page 27:
      To guild thy Tombe; beſides, theſe Caules, / Theſe Laces, Ribbands, and theſe Faules, / Theſe Veiles, vvherevvith vve uſe to hide / The Baſhfull Bride, / VVhen vve conduct her to her Groome: / All, all vve lay upon thy Tombe.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for faule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin fabula.

Noun

faule f (plural faules)

  1. fable

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

faule

  1. inflection of faul:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Plautdietsch

Verb

faule

  1. to fall

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -awli, (Portugal) -awlɨ
  • Hyphenation: fau‧le

Verb

faule

  1. inflection of faular:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative