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9 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
“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.”
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include flounce, frill, beading, binding, bordering.
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