Obs. rare. [Of obscure origin.] A silly or foolish person.
1639. N. N., trans. Du Bosqs Compl. Woman, I. 26. I can no wayes excuse those Gossips who are rapt in the companie of certaine Spalts [F. impertinés], so they have good clothes, or talk but of the Queene or Princesse. Ibid., II. 59. What they only do of purpose to take some Spalt [F. insensé].