furbelow
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furbelow
- /ˈfəː.bɪ.ləʊ/ UK
- /ˈfəː.bə.ləʊ/ UK
- /ˈfɚ.bɪ.loʊ/ US
- /ˈfɚ.bə.loʊ/ US
Where it comes from
Corruption of falbala; first attested in the late 1600s or early 1700s. Not related to fur.
noun furbelows
- A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc. 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.
- A small, showy ornamentation. 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.
verb furbelows · furbelowing · furbelowed
- To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament. Mrs. Palmer, and her furbelowed daughters-in-law, who will probably carry enough of the scarlet fever about them, to remind you unpleasantly of the officiousness which preserved the lives of three daughters, when two might have been parted with advantageously enough.
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noun small, showy ornamentation
| Русский | безвкусная отде́лка bezvkusnaja otdélka |
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