furbelow

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈfəː.bɪ.ləʊ/|/ˈfəː.bə.ləʊ/    美 /ˈfɚ.bɪ.loʊ/|/ˈfɚ.bə.loʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc.
    — 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.
  2. A small, showy ornamentation. broadly
    — Within, among the bric-a-brac and furbelows, he found Miss Painter seated in a redundant purple armchair with the incongruous air of a horseman bestriding a heavy mount.
动词 v.
  1. To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament. transitive
    — Mrs. Palmer, and her furbelowed daughters-in-law, who will probably carry enough of the scarlet fever about them, to remind you unpleasantly of the officiousness which preserved the lives of three daughters, when two might have been parted with advantageously enough.

词形变化

furbelows plural furbelows present,singular,third-person furbelowing participle,present furbelowed participle,past furbelowed past

词汇关系

衍生词
befurbelow

词源

词源 1
Corruption of falbala; first attested in the late 1600s or early 1700s. Not related to fur.
词源 2
Corruption of falbala; first attested in the late 1600s or early 1700s. Not related to fur.
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