falda
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of falda
< Italian < Germanic; see fold 1
Example Sentences
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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 Bret Harte
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 Bert Harte
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 Charles King
Six-fifteen:—Barclay and his corporal were but dots along the falda now, and moving swiftly.
From A Trooper Galahad by Charles King
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