How To Use Furbelow In A Sentence
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Zoffany's painting of Mrs Oswald shows a lemon-lipped, bored-looking woman trussed in a furbelowed dress.
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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
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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
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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.
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In such a furbelowed, tasseled and bedizened production, the greatest of singers would have a difficult time making an impression.
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It doesn't stop there: the scatter cushions of the rich are also tasselled, pleated, furbelowed, monogrammed and crested.
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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
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A set of clouds after the French mode, streaked with lightning, and furbelowed.
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899
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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
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Some of the tax code's frills and furbelows are justifiable.
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Many a private chair, too, inclosing some fine lady, monstrously hooped and furbelowed, and preceded by running – footmen bearing flambeaux — for which extinguishers are yet suspended before the doors of a few houses of the better sort — made the way gay and light as it danced along, and darker and more dismal when it had passed.
Barnaby Rudge
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In his book on orchids he documents the elaborate frills and furbelows, gimmicks and traps, that lure and exploit insect pollinators, thereby ensuring cross-fertilization.
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This evening, gift wrapping a couple of small presents for Graham's birthday, tomorrow, I had to give up on the frills and furbelows and resort to plain old parcel wrapping, and none too tidily at that.
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Kedzie's soul expanded to the ultimate fringe of the farthest furbelow.
We Can't Have Everything
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A short, stout person presents a most ridiculous appearance when she attires herself in flounces, puffs, and furbelows until she resembles a wine tun.
A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
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Olnek directs at a breathless pace, imaginatively varying styles and making the most of Munee Hayes's over-the-top furbelowed costumes.
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She was flounced and furbelowed from head to foot; every ribbon was wrinkled, and every part of her garments in curl, so that she looked like one of those animals which in the country we call a _Friezland_ hen.
The Coverley Papers
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B ` ism Allah" (a Moor mounts and dismounts in the name of God), with a man at his stirrups, he sinks without an effort into his saddle, amidst a furbelow of white robes, which he has afterwards arranged carefully for him.
In the Tail of the Peacock
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The Shaggy Man found his bed = soft and luxurious, so he slipped off his shaggy clothes, carefully = arranging them on a chair so that not one frill or furbelow was out of = place, put on the pajamas which Conjo had also provided for him, and = slipped into bed.
The Shaggy Man of Oz
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In chests in the attic are furbelowed skirts of her great-grandmother's day, the day when her set of six chairs, delicately designed by a colonial craftsman, made a wedding present for her ancestor.
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He had seen women of sixty, rouged, and jewelled, and furbelowed, foot it deftly in the halls of the Faubourg St. Germain in his earliest youth; and this cheery, healthy woman, with lingering blooms on either cheek, and uncapped head of curly black hair but slightly strewn with silver, seemed quite as fit a subject for the accomplishment.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
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With a 'yer furbelowed claithes and jewelled watch and trinkets, ye dinna ken much aboot the gospel.
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick
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The desserts seem steadier, although they, too, succumb to major-league busyness, being garnished and furbelowed to a fare-thee-well.
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He wore, it is true, a new and jaunty hunting-shirt of dressed deer-skin, as yellow as gold, and fringed and furbelowed with shreds of the same substance, dyed as red as blood-root could make them; but was otherwise, to the view, a plain yeoman, endowed with those gifts of mind only which were necessary to his station, but with the virtues which are alike common to forest and city.
Nick of the Woods
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The frilled, flounced and furbelowed 1850s grew more ornate with each passing day and even the littlest humans were as loaded with ribbons, bows, embroidery and lace as any Parisian belle.
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The dresses held an atmosphere of evaporated frivolity; flirtations lingered in every frill, and memories of old larks lurked in every furbelow.
Mr. Opp
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Though a _réligieuse_, she wore crinoline and large paniers, and, was elegantly furbelowed.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
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He thought of Nora Costello; but he could not bring himself to ask her to share the narrow limits of her one room with this be-furbelowed young person, and then it would involve so many awkward explanations.
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
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In his book on orchids he documents the elaborate frills and furbelows, gimmicks and traps, that lure and exploit insect pollinators, thereby ensuring cross-fertilization.
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For the rest; the dress was made with extreme simplicity, guiltless of flounce or furbelow; it was but the light fabric and bright tint which scared me, and since Graham found in it nothing absurd, my own eye consented soon to become reconciled.
Villette
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There wasn't a single frill, flower or furbelow in her house, and he suspected her mind was just as streamlined.
Hot For Him
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Often people join the conversations from above, hanging over the rails of the many furbelowed wrought-iron fire escapes precariously fastened to house fronts.
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A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827
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Her sex was the very essence of her; she had no need to wear it like a furbelow.
The Nest Builder
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The desserts seem steadier, although they, too, succumb to major-league busyness, being garnished and furbelowed to a fare-thee-well.
