Lady Craufurd is now dressing for it, with more roses, blood, and furbelow than were ever yet enlisted (?). From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
There wasn't a single frill, flower or furbelow in her house, and he suspected her mind was just as streamlined. From Wordnik.com. [Hot For Him]
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Shaggy Man of Oz]
And, if it were a mere fal-lal, a furbelow of larval coquetry, even that would not surprise me. From Wordnik.com. [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference
A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Tales] Reference
I'll tear the furbelow off your clothes, and when you fwoon for vexation, you flia'nt have a penny to buy a bottle of harts-horn. From Wordnik.com. [The New English theatre, containing the most valuable plays which have been acted on the London stage] Reference
The dresses held an atmosphere of evaporated frivolity; flirtations lingered in every frill, and memories of old larks lurked in every furbelow. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Opp] Reference
I found the curtains of her bed closely drawn, and not a thread of lace, not a suspicion of hosiery, nor a frill nor a furbelow could be seen to suggest the mystery of a lady's chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress] Reference
Her sister, on the contrary, had been one of those giddy women who follow every frill and furbelow of Fashion, and who take up all the latest crazes with a seriousness worthy of better objects. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Secrets] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
They answered the objections with great strength and solidity of argument, and expatiated in very florid harangues, which they did not fail to set off and furbelow, if I may be allowed the metaphor, with many periodical sentences and turns of oratory. From Wordnik.com. [Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer] Reference
It is quite as if Mme. Chaminade's maid laid out her musical thoughts as well as her dresses, being sure to have every frill and furbelow in its place, whether it be the robe d 'interieur which she is to wear at breakfast, her robe de ville for calling, or her robe de soirée. From Wordnik.com. [The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players] Reference
She was neither one of your precise prudes, nor one of your fantastical old belles that dress themselves like girls of fifteen; as she neither wore a ruff, forehead-cloth, nor high-crowned hat, so she had laid aside feathers, flowers, and crimpt ribbons in her head-dress, furbelow-scarfs, and hooped-petticoats. From Wordnik.com. [History of John Bull] Reference
A stately measure in frocks and hats, a flowing rhythm in every frill and furbelow. From Wordnik.com. [Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties] Reference
We tell the brethren, that if they do not pay more attention to the pure, simple, beautiful symbolism of the Lodge and less to the tinsel, furbelow, fire and feathers of Scotch Ritism and Templarism, the Craft will yet be shaken to its very foundations! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Fleda skipped away, and in five minutes returned arrayed for the expedition, in her usual out-of-door working trim, namely, an old dark merino cloak, almost black, the effect of which was continued by the edge of an old dark mousseline below, and rendered decidedly striking by the contrast of a large whitish yarn shawl worn over it; the whole crowned with a little close-fitting hood made of some old silver-grey silk, shaped tight to the head, without any bow or furbelow to break the outline. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy, Volume I] Reference
Fleda skipped away, and in five minutes returned arrayed for the expedition, in her usual out-of-door working trim, namely; an old dark merino cloak, almost black, the effect of which was continued by the edge of an old dark mousseline below, and rendered decidedly striking by the contrast of a large whitish yarn shawl worn over it; the whole crowned with a little close-fitting hood made of some old silver-grey silk, shaped tight to the head, without any bow or furbelow to break the outline. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
Fleda skipped away and in five minutes returned arrayed for the expedition, in her usual out-of-door working trim, namely, -- an old dark merino cloak, almost black, the effect of which was continued by the edge of an old dark mousseline below, and rendered decidedly striking by the contrast of a large whitish yarn shawl worn over it; the whole crowned with a little close-fitting hood made of some old silver-grey silk, shaped tight to the head, without any bow or furbelow to break the outline. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
Or a tuck in her furbelow. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
In farthingale and furbelow. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV.] Reference
For some new flounce or furbelow. From Wordnik.com. [Too Old for Dolls A Novel] Reference
The laws of flounce and furbelow. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference
Their locks do furbelow and twist. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection of Plays and Poems, by the Late Col. Robert Munford, of Mecklenburg County, in the State of Virginia. Now First Published Together.] Reference
Hence ornament and furbelow disdain. From Wordnik.com. ['A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts] Reference
To change a flounce or add a furbelow. From Wordnik.com. [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference
To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1] Reference
The dimpled flounce of the sea-furbelow flap. From Wordnik.com. [Enoch Arden & c.] Reference
The oldest in college, deck'd in rich furbelow. From Wordnik.com. [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference
He has made no attempt to furbelow our finances. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
To change a flounce or add a furbelow. ". From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
Her post contained, not bills for dresses, but solicitations to feed, frizz, fur, flower, feather, furbelow, and photograph her. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
To her dress, which was a kind of riding-habit, she stitched, pinned, and otherwise secured, a large furbelow of artificial flowers, all crushed, wrinkled and dirty, which had at first bedecked a lady of quality, then descended to her Abigail, and dazzled the inmates of the servants 'hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
To her dress, which was a kind of riding-habit, she stitched, pinned, and otherwise secured, a large furbelow of artificial flowers, all crushed, wrinkled and dirty, which had at first bedecked a lady of quality, then descended to her Abigail, and dazzled the inmates of the servants’ hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
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