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▪ I. † ˈfalset1 Chiefly Sc. Obs.
Also 4 falsat, 5 falssett.
[app. a. OF. falset (Godef. s.v. faussé):—late L. falsātum, neut. pa. pple. of falsāre: see false v.]
Falsehood, treachery, fraud; an instance of this. In Scots Law = falsehood (see quot. 1609).
1375Barbour Bruce xv. 122 Falsat euirmar Sall haue..euill ending. 1482Certificate in Surtees Misc. (1890) 40 To put down all falssett and untrewit. 1555Sc. Acts Mary (1597) §44 Mony falsettes daylie done within this realme be Notars. 1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 161 This then standeth in force..although there appeare erroure or falset. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 69 The generall crime of falset, conteines vnder it sundrie speciall crimes. As false Charters or Writtes, false money, false measures, false wechts. Ibid. 128 He quha is convict of falset in weghts.
▪ II. † falset2
anglicized form of falsetto.
1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 59 A young Man singing..with such a Voice, as seem'd not to come from Heaven..it was a Falset. 1782Burney Hist. Mus. II. iv. 374 The other just come from Rome—sings in Falset. 1796― Memoirs Metastasio II. 174 A great player on the violin in falset. |