Obs. A kind of coarse woollen cloth; frieze.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prol., 391. In a gowne of faldyng to the kne.
1436. Political Poems (1859), II. 186.
| Irish wollen, lynyn cloth, faldynge | |
| And marternus gode, bene here marchaundyse. |
1523. Fitzherbert, The Boke of Husbandry, § 44. A pece of an olde mantell, or of faldynge, or suche a softe cloth or woll, for spendynge to moche of your salue.
attrib. 1392. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), I. 174. Item lego patri meo … meam armilansam, videlicet faldyngclok.
b. A covering or garment of the same.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Miller’s T., 26. His presse i-covered with a faldyng reed.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 353. Blak faldynges instede of mantels arid of clokes.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 147. Faldynge, clothe … amphibalus.
1526. Lanc. Wills (Chetham Society), 13. I gvff to Alice Legh … my best typett my faldyng and my bok in the church.
