Furbelow

//ˈfɚ.bɪ.loʊ//

Synonyms for "furbelow" (25 found)

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Translations

8 translations across 5 languages.

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Bulgarian

3 entries
  • волан noun (decorative piece of fabric)
  • набор noun (decorative piece of fabric)
  • флинтифлюшка noun (small, showy ornamentation)

Catalan

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  • farbalà noun (decorative piece of fabric)

Finnish

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  • hepene noun (decorative piece of fabric)

Polish

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  • falbana noun (decorative piece of fabric)
  • falbana noun (small, showy ornamentation)

Russian

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  • безвкусная отде́лка noun (small, showy ornamentation)

Sample sentences

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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.

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All the other furbelows, and portions of this one^([this Medusa]) that lay below the expansion, floated as usual through the water, except that on some occasions an accessory power was obtained by pressing a portion of another furbelow to the side of the glass and making it adhere just like the portion that was exposed to the surface of the air.

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“Well, I don’t know that fifty is much for a dress, with all the furbelows and notions you have to have to finish it off these days.”

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Winterbourne stood looking after her; and as she moved away, drawing her muslin furbelows over the gravel, said to himself that she had the tournure of a princess.

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