a. [See -IAN.] Characteristic of or resembling Falstaff, a fat, humorous, jovial knight in Shaks., Hen. IV., Hen. V., and Merry Wives. Also, resembling the ‘ragged regiment’ recruited by Falstaff (Hen. IV., III. ii.).
1808. R. K. Porter, Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden (1813), I. i. 12. Clothing is issued to them [the Danish soldiery] once in three years; and as they are not very nice disciplinarians, you can easily imagine what a Falstaffian array they are in by the time their new wardrobe comes round.
1856. Olmsted, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, 411. Wrapped up to a Falstaffian rotundity in flannels and furs.
1880. E. Ingersoll, La Villa Real de Santa Fe, in Harper’s Mag., LX. 676/1. The immortal Pike … unwillingly tramped into Santa Fe at the head of his Falstaffian band.
