furbelow

Example Sentences

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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

In powder, patch, and furbelow, Cocked-hat and sword; and every one,— Tory and whig of long ago,— As real as in the days long done, The courtly days of Washington.

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius

And, if it were a mere fal-lal, a furbelow of larval coquetry, even that would not surprise me.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander