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▪ I. furbelow, n.|ˈfɜːbɪləʊ| Forms: 7–8 furbelo(e, 8 furbellow, (forbulo, forbuloe), 8– furbelow. [An alteration of falbala.] 1. A piece of stuff pleated and puckered on a gown or petticoat; a flounce; the pleated border of a petticoat or gown. Now often in pl. as a contemptuous term for showy ornaments or trimming, esp. in a lady's dress.
1706S. Centlivre Basset Table iv. H 2 b, Lady Revel..Discovers a purse in the Furbeloes of her Apron. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 15 Their peticoates silke yt were with furbellows one above another with Ribons. 1711Addison Spect. No. 15 ⁋4 A Furbelow of precious Stones, an Hat buttoned with a Diamond. 1760C. Johnston Chrysal (1822) I. 275 Here, Jane, settle the furbellows of my scarf. 1827Praed Poems (1865) II. 355 The Baron bows low to a furbelow, If it be not my Lady's dress. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xxxiii. 249 My lady smiled as she looked at the festoons and furbelows which met her eye upon every side. fig.1883D. G. Mitchell Bound Together i, Rhetorical furbelows or broidery that belong to the wardrobes of the past. 2. Anything resembling a flounce.
1742H. Baker Microsc. ii. xxvi. 203 Its Wings are encompassed with a Furbelow of long Feathers. 1875Carpenter Microscope xi. §481. 584 The beautiful Chrysaora remarkable for its long ‘furbelows’ which act as organs of prehension. 3. A name for Laminaria bulbosa, a seaweed with a large wrinkled frond.
1846–51Harvey Phycologia Britannica III. Plate ccxli, This is the largest British species of the Laminarieæ..Its common name is Furbelows. 1864Tennyson Sea Dreams 257 You..made The dimpled flounce of the sea-furbelow flap..to please the child. †4. Conchol. (See quot.) ? Obs.
1776tr. Da Costa's Conchol. 289 The Furbelow from Falkland Island; Baccinium Fimbriatum. 5. attrib. passing into adj.; chiefly in the sense ‘having furbelows’, pleated. † Also as the name of a kind of pear.
c1680Crys of London in Bagford Ballads I. 116 Will you buy any Furbeloe Pears. 1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4177/4 Lost..a blue Furbelow Coach-Box Cloth. 1706Farquhar Recruit. Officer iv. i, I'll buy you a furbelow scarf. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull iii. i, Crimpt ribbons in her head⁓dress, furbelo-scarfs, and hooped-petticoats. 1803M. Charlton Wife & Mistress III. 221 If you were to put round you a heap of furbelow veils, you would look picturesque enough. ▪ II. furbelow, v.|ˈfɜːbɪləʊ| [f. prec. n.] trans. To ornament with a furbelow, or with something resembling a furbelow.
1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3743/4 Lost..a Deal Box..having in it a rich Scarf forbulo'd with a rich Gold Lace. 1731–7Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Chelone, Many flat Seeds, that are furbelow'd on the Edges. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 157 It is furbeloed with a richer stuff, near half a yard in depth. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge (1849) 74/2 Many a private chair too, inclosing some fine lady, monstrously hooped and furbelowed. 1865L. Oliphant Piccadilly (1870) 222 Trains of daughters, furbelowed and flounced by the same dressmakers. fig.1709–10Addison Tatler No. 116 ⁋2 Very florid Harangues, which they did not fail to set off and furbelow (if I may be allowed the Metaphor) with many periodical Sentences. 1717Prior Alma ii. 44 To break their points, you turn their force, And furbelow the plain discourse. absol.1784R. Bage Barham Downs I. 171 They could trim, flounce, and furbelow to admiration. Hence ˈfurbelowed ppl. a.
1703Farquhar Inconstant ii. i, Have you got home your furbelowed smocks yet? 1713Steele Guardian No. 142 ⁋5, I am now rearing up a set of fine furbelowed dock-leaves. 1835Beckford Recoll. 104 Under a most sumptuously fringed and furbelowed canopy of purple velvet. 1861J. R. Greene Man. Anim. Kingd., Cœlent. 123 It terminates in four furbelowed lips. |