Definitions for furbelow

furbelow fur·be·low

Spelling: [fur-buh-loh]
IPA: /ˈfɜr bəˌloʊ/

Furbelow is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in furbelow (befloruw).

Definitions for furbelow

noun

  1. a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.
  2. any bit of showy trimming or finery.

verb (used with object)

  1. to ornament with or as if with furbelows.

Origin of furbelow

First recorded in 1670-80; variant of falbala

Examples for furbelow

I swore I hadn't four marks a year, and I've my fellowship for telling the furbelow.

Her sex was the very essence of her; she had no need to wear it like a furbelow.

I'll tear the furbelow off your clothes, and when you swoon for vexation, you shan't have a penny, to buy a bottle of hartshorn.

I invited that furbelow widow to stay on purpose to spare me this almost tte--tte meeting.

It was a hull week afore I could make up my mind to go out of my office, and the sight of a furbelow raly made me sick.

And, if it were a mere fal-lal, a furbelow of larval coquetry, even that would not surprise me.

How ridiculous that one should suffer from want of a frill or a furbelow!

Then why, in the name of common sense, did you gaze so earnestly at the furbelow lady herself?

A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics.

There was not a flower or ruche or frill or furbelow or bow about her dress of which he did not make a mental inventory.

Word Value for furbelow
Scrable

16

Words with friends

19

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