How To Use furbelow In A Sentence
- Zoffany's painting of Mrs Oswald shows a lemon-lipped, bored-looking woman trussed in a furbelowed dress.
- Lady Craufurd is now dressing for it, with more roses, blood, and furbelow than were ever yet enlisted (?). George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
- Let a woman appear with an unaccustomed furbelow, or a family of a workman that is earning a fat salary, eat two succulent dishes the same week, public opinion will quickly make evident its sentiments, and swiftly put things to rights. With Those Who Wait
- After playing small roles in everything from Shakespeare to Jean Anouilh, she was singing in a small New York club in 1959 when Coward heard her and put her, furbelowed all the way to her eyebrow-tangling bangs, in his musical Look After Lulu.
- In such a furbelowed, tasseled and bedizened production, the greatest of singers would have a difficult time making an impression.
- It doesn't stop there: the scatter cushions of the rich are also tasselled, pleated, furbelowed, monogrammed and crested.
- She calls her chariot, 'vehicle'; her furbelowed scarf, 'pinions': her blue mant and petticoat is her 'azure dress'; and her footman goes by the name of Oberon. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899
- A set of clouds after the French mode, streaked with lightning, and furbelowed. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899
- Old Jolyon was left with the doll, a furbelowed affair in wax — which is indeed more inviting to chastisement than china — whose round blue eyes expressed nothing but indifference. On Forsyte 'Change
- Some of the tax code's frills and furbelows are justifiable.
