Meanings
alternative be-furbelowed
- datednot comparableobsoletepossiblyFurbelowed; ornamented with frill.
Children, freshly befurbelowed, were gathering for their games under the oaks.
1899, Kate Chopin, chapter V, in The Awakening1 more example
Tante Lydia's morning cap was quite as youthful as that of her niece, her flowered wrapper as belaced and befurbelowed as the lingière could make it, and her high heeled mules were at least two sizes too small, and slapped as she walked.
1913, Ethel Watts Mumford, Out of the Ashes
Origin
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