Also in quasi-Fr. form faldette. [It. faldetta, dim. of falda: see FALDELLA.] A combined hood and cape, worn by women in Malta.
1834. Sir F. B. Head, Bubbles fr. Brunnen, 191. Women, shrouded in their black silk faldettes.
1866. Blackmore, Cr. Nowell, xii. (1881), 48. A maiden with the love dream nestling beneath the bridal faldetta.
1883. C. D. Warner, A Roundabout Journey, xiii. 119. All the Maltese ladies, as well as the common people, wear the faldetta to church, though on other occasions European hats are gaining ground with the higher classes.
