furbelow
Example Sentences
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They were going to bare their shoulders, drape themselves in extravagant yards of rich cloth and go out on the town festooned with about every feminine furbelow short of a bone in the nose.
From Time Magazine Archive
In dress, the stress is on flair and fabric, not feather and furbelow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Boston ladies, their skirts all passe- mentarie and furbelow, India silk and jaconet, crowded the chambers, swiveling their hoops and panniers like dames on clocks to navigate the doors.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Nay, oft in dreams invention we bestow To change a flounce or add a furbelow.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
"Then why, in the name of common sense, did you gaze so earnestly at the furbelow lady herself?"
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
