subs. (various).—1. A neckcloth, scarf, or tie with long pendant ends. Also (2) a chignon: spec. a fringe of hair falling down the neck under the chignon.
1824. S. E. FERRIER, The Inheritance, I. xi. Drooping FALL of Foyers-looking neckcloth.
1861. T. HUGHES, Tom Brown at Oxford, II. iii. A gaudy figured satin waistcoat, and WATERFALL of the same material.
1880. A. D. T. WHITNEY, A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite’s Life, iii. The brown silk net … had given way all at once into a great hole under the WATERFALL, and the soft hair would fret itself through and threaten to stray untidily.
