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Definition of Furbelowing
1. furbelow [v] - See also: furbelow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Furbelowing
Literary usage of Furbelowing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metropolitan (1843)
"... and though it was as plain as the Friend's first fashion, yet its entire
simplicity and freedom from everything in the shape of trimming or furbelowing, ..."
2. A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1847)
"And there is no ruffling or furbelowing in the uniform of the plain-clad people,
but their material is as rich as a Jew. The city has all the tidiness and ..."
3. A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1847)
"And there is no ruffling or furbelowing in the uniform of the plain-clad people,
but their material is as rich as a Jew. The city has all the tidiness and ..."
4. A Collection from the Miscellaneous Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1849)
"They go up to their thresholds over the white Italian marble.—And there is no
ruffling or furbelowing in the uniform of the plain-c\ad people, ..."
5. Sermon, Proceedings and Addresses in Commemoration of the Fiftieth by Mass First Church and Society (Leicester (1862)
"She has turned the old dress lower end up, backside in front, and inside out,
and tastefully furbelowing it, it really seems just ..."
6. The Oratorical Dictionary by John Newland Maffitt (1835)
"FU'NICLE. s. A small cord; a fibre, adj. funicular. FUR'BISH. o. To burnish, to
FUR/BELOW. • s. A kind of trimming, v. furbelow ;pr. par. furbelowing; past, ..."
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