furbelow
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
furbelow (plural furbelows)
- A frill#Noun|frill, flounce#Noun|flounce, or ruffle#Noun|ruffle, as on clothing#Noun|clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gather#Verb|gathered or pleat#Verb|pleated as into a ruffle, etc.
- 1839, Frances Trollope, chapter I, in The Widow Barnaby. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 465583499 ↗, pages 24–25 ↗:
- I do not think that from the blissful time when I was sixteen, up to my present solemn five-and-thirty, I could ever have been tempted to look a second time at any miss under the chaperonship of such a dame as that feather and furbelow lady.
- 1863, John George Wood, The Illustrated Natural History, page 745 ↗,
- All the other furbelows, and portions of this one[this Medusa] that lay below the expansion, floated as usual through the water, except that on some occasions an accessory power was obtained by pressing a portion of another furbelow to the side of the glass and making it adhere just like the portion that was exposed to the surface of the air.
- 1964, E. J. H. Corner, The Life of Plants, 2002, University of Chicago Press, page 76 ↗,
- Each plant has several oarweed fronds on the top of a flat stem, well adapted to swaying in one direction but rigid in the other; along the rigid edges, where the water flows and eddies, develop the wavy furbelows.
- A small, showy ornamentation.
- Russian: безвкусная отде́лка
furbelow (furbelows, present participle furbelowing; past and past participle furbelowed)
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