Furbelow

Quick meaning: Furbelow is a noun meaning A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc.

Meaning

A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A small, showy ornamentation.
2. (transitive) To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament.

Example Sentences

“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.”

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• furbelows
• furbelowing
• furbelowed

Synonyms for furbelow

Depending on context, synonyms include ruffle, frill, flounce.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ruffle, frill, flounce, frislet, flouncing, frufru.

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