Definition of "furbelow" []

• A ruffle or flounce on a garment. (noun)
• A piece of showy ornamentation. (noun)
• To decorate with a ruffle or flounce. (verb-transitive)

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• "There wasn't a single frill, flower or furbelow in her house, and he suspected her mind was just as streamlined."
• "For the rest; the dress was made with extreme simplicity, guiltless of flounce or furbelow; it was but the light fabric and bright tint which scared me, and since Graham found in it nothing absurd, my own eye consented soon to become reconciled."
• "Her sex was the very essence of her; she had no need to wear it like a furbelow."