furbelow
/ˈfɚ.bɪ.loʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc.
noun
A small, showy ornamentation.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "“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.”"
- "Winterbourne stood looking after her; and as she moved away, drawing her muslin furbelows over the gravel, said to himself that she had the tournure of a princess."
- "Those dresses are good, sensible, serviceable dresses, without any frills or furbelows about them, and they’re all you’ll get this summer."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɚ.bɪ.loʊ/
- British English: /ˈfəː.bɪ.ləʊ/