faule
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɔːl/
- Rhymes: -ɔːl
Noun
faule (plural faules)
- (obsolete) A fall or falling band[1].
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “[His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, […].] 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[mas] 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.
Verb
faule
- Obsolete spelling of fall
References
- ^ “faule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Bourguignon
Etymology
Noun
faule f (plural faules)
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
faule
- inflection of faul:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Plautdietsch
Verb
faule
- to fall
Related terms
- Faul m
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfaw.li/ [ˈfaʊ̯.li]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfaw.le/ [ˈfaʊ̯.le]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfaw.lɨ/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -awli, (Portugal) -awlɨ
- Hyphenation: fau‧le
Verb
faule
- inflection of faular:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative