furbelows

Noun

furbelow (plural furbelows)

1. A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc.
   • 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.1839, Frances Trollope, chapter I, in The Widow Barnaby. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 24–25
2. (broadly) A small, showy ornamentation.
   • Within, among the bric-a-brac and furbelows, he found Miss Painter seated in a redundant purple armchair with the incongruous air of a horseman bestriding a heavy mount.1912, Edith Wharton, The Reef, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company

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