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- noun Plural form of
furbelow .
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Examples
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Innuit pattern, sewed together with sinew threads, and devoid of beads or furbelows.
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In the furbelows and folderol of the chat between the first cup and the second he shows me several interpretations of crocodiles in soapstone and wood, but nothing real.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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In the furbelows and folderol of the chat between the first cup and the second he shows me several interpretations of crocodiles in soapstone and wood, but nothing real.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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And so with the cock bird, displaying his feathered ruffs and furbelows, dancing strange antics and spilling out his heart in song.
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Set in Paris during the Vichy era, “Marguerite” stars the gifted (but badly used) Ruthie Henshall, a darling of the West End musical, as the doomed courtesane once played by Greta Garbo in frills and furbelows.
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Set in Paris during the Vichy era, “Marguerite” stars the gifted (but badly used) Ruthie Henshall, a darling of the West End musical, as the doomed courtesane once played by Greta Garbo in frills and furbelows.
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As the Cleveland News reported the day after his demise: "He was his 100 percent self all the time, no frills, or furbelows, and it was this trait that won him fast friends among the heads of manufacturing, industrial and mercantile concerns as well as among the newsies on the street corners."
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As the Cleveland News reported the day after his demise: "He was his 100 percent self all the time, no frills, or furbelows, and it was this trait that won him fast friends among the heads of manufacturing, industrial and mercantile concerns as well as among the newsies on the street corners."
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As the Cleveland News reported the day after his demise: "He was his 100 percent self all the time, no frills, or furbelows, and it was this trait that won him fast friends among the heads of manufacturing, industrial and mercantile concerns as well as among the newsies on the street corners."
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Devoid of frills and furbelows, the First Lady most successfully complements her refined wardrobe, either audaciously, with fantastic faux jewels, or charmingly, with a playful brooch or an unassuming bow.
manilamac commented on the word furbelows
I encountered furbelows in Martha Grimes' I Am the Only Running Footman. I could tell it was meant to draw attention to some sort of ornimentation. All refs indicate women's clothing, but Grimes applied it to home-made chair covers.
July 7, 2009