faldettan.
/falˈdɛtə/ A combined hood and cape, worn by women in Malta.
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1834 F. B. Head Bubbles from Brunnen 191 Women, semi-shrouded in their black silk faldettes.
1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell (1881) xii. 48 A maiden with the love dream nestling beneath the bridal faldetta.
1883 C. D. Warner Roundabout Journey xiii. 119 All the Maltese ladies..wear the faldetta to church.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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