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Definition of "furbelowed" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of furbelow. (verb)

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Use "furbelowed" in a sentence
  • "Many a private chair, too, inclosing some fine lady, monstrously hooped and furbelowed, and preceded by running – footmen bearing flambeaux — for which extinguishers are yet suspended before the doors of a few houses of the better sort — made the way gay and light as it danced along, and darker and more dismal when it had passed."
  • "Old Jolyon was left with the doll, a furbelowed affair in wax — which is indeed more inviting to chastisement than china — whose round blue eyes expressed nothing but indifference."
  • "Though a _réligieuse_, she wore crinoline and large paniers, and, was elegantly furbelowed."
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