furbelow
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In dress, the stress is on flair and fabric, not feather and furbelow.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
The outer tunic was fastened on the shoulders with brooches; it had sleeves over the upper arm, and, in the case of adults but not of young girls, a flounce or furbelow at the bottom.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
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 Sir Leslie Stephen
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