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
And, dropping botany, she sighs For some new flounce or furbelow.
From Too Old for Dolls A Novel by Anthony M. (Anthony Mario) Ludovici
Nay oft in dreams invention we bestow To change a flounce or add a furbelow.
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
