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Definition of Furbelowed
1. furbelow [v] - See also: furbelow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Furbelowed
Literary usage of Furbelowed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living by Julia Ellen Rogers (1908)
"... or furbelowed Clams, one of which, T. gigas, is the largest of all mollusks,
live in beds of some ..."
2. The Lady of the Manor: Being a Series of Conversations on the Subject of by Sherwood (Mary Martha) (1836)
"... and a person was chosen who had nursed the son and heir of a duke, a very fine
lady in appearance,—flounced, and furbelowed, and pow* dered, ..."
3. Elements of conchology by Lovell Reeve (1860)
"diverging arched ribs, more or less densely furbelowed with erect ... The furbelowed
Clams, one of which, T.gigas, from its being the largest of all ..."
4. Costume of Colonial Times by Alice Morse Earle (1894)
"In the Pleasant Art of Money-Catching (1730) a furbelowed scarf is said "not to be
... furbelowed gowns and petticoats and scarfs our foremothers had in ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1905)
"A pair of Tower of Babel, exceedingly fine. A Persian music, and a fine yellow
furbelowed oyster. Part of a very scarce alatus and a curious buccinum, ..."
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