furbelow
Example Sentences
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“Well, I don’t know that fifty is much for a dress, with all the furbelows and notions you have to have to finish it off these days.”
From Literature
“Eh—what? Oh, get along, girl, get along. I’ve no time for such frills and furbelows.”
From Literature
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
