Meaning of furbelow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc.
2. A small, showy ornamentation.
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Examples

“I do not think⟳ that from the blissful time when I was sixteen, up to my present⟳ solemn five-and-thirty, I could ever have⟳ been tempted to look⟳ a second time at any miss⟳ under the chaperonship of such a dame as that feather and furbelow lady.”

“All the other furbelows, and portions of this one^([this Medusa]) that lay⟳ below the expansion, floated as usual through the water, except that on some occasions an accessory power was obtained by pressing a portion of another furbelow to the side of the glass and making it adhere just like⟳ the portion that was exposed to the surface of the air.”

““Well, I don’t know⟳ that fifty is much for a dress, with all the furbelows and notions you have⟳ to have⟳ to finish⟳ it off these days.””

“Winterbourne stood looking after her; and as she moved away, drawing her muslin furbelows over the gravel, said to himself that she had the tournure of a princess.”

“Those dresses are good, sensible, serviceable dresses, without any frills or furbelows about them, and they’re all you’ll get⟳ this summer.”

“Each plant⟳ has several oarweed fronds on the top of a flat stem, well adapted to swaying in one direction but rigid in the other; along the rigid edges, where the water flows and eddies, develop⟳ the wavy furbelows.”

“Within, among the bric-a-brac and furbelows, he found Miss⟳ Painter seated in a redundant purple armchair with the incongruous air of a horseman bestriding a heavy mount⟳.”

“The band played ceaselessly. Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor.”

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