furbelow

• The costume is simple and plain,--close-fitting upper garments, without fuss of furbelow, and plain close skirts, met at the ankles by high buttoned boots. —  Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885
• My hair is quite gray on the right side of my head; my teeth break off and fall out; my face is as full of wrinkles as the furbelow of a woman's frock; my back as bent as that of a monk of La Trappe. —  The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel
• Let us come again to the follies of FALSE POVERTY How ridiculous that one should suffer from want of a frill or a furbelow! —  The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future
• To watch, to teach, to restrain, to encourage the royal young creature beside him--that was much; to feel with such a constant intimacy the impact of her quick affection, her radiant vitality--that was more; most of all, perhaps, was it good to linger vaguely in humorous contemplation, in idle apostrophe, to talk disconnectedly, to make a little joke about an apple or a furbelow, to dream. —  Queen Victoria
• Or a tuck in her furbelow; —  The Book of Humorous Verse

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