Obs. [med.L., a. It. faldella in same sense, dim. of falda fold of cloth, skirt.] (See quot. 1753.)
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 317. Leie þerupon faldellas wiþ white of an ey.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Faldella, a word used by some of the writers in surgery for a sort of compress made of list contorted together in several doubles.
