furbelow
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Is furbelow a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of furbelow?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension) A small, showy ornamentation.Examples: "Within, among the bric-a-brac and furbelows, he found Miss Painter seated in a redundant purple armchair with the incongruous air of a horseman bestriding a heavy mount."; "The band played ceaselessly. Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor."broadly
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament.Examples: "Mrs. Palmer, and her furbelowed daughters-in-law, who will probably carry enough of the scarlet fever about them, to remind you unpleasantly of the officiousness which preserved the lives of three daughters, when two might have been parted with advantageously enough."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary