furbelow
Example Sentences
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Daley described how Yankee Stadium would be dressed up for the day with “extra flourishes and furbelows.”
From New York Times
Some of the stranger words that surfaced: “furbelow,” “phobotactic” and “saponaceous.”
From Washington Post
Streep was troubled by “all the furbelows and giggles of the social Wendy that I knew.”
From The New Yorker
Expect frills and furbelows, but don’t rule out surprise entirely.
From New York Times
“So in her designs, she borrowed the ease, comfort and muted palette of men’s clothes to create a style of pared-down elegance for women that liberated them from furbelows and froufrou confections.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
