befurbelowed

See also: be-furbelowed

English

Alternative forms

• be-furbelowed

Etymology

From be- +‎ furbelow +‎ -ed.

Adjective

befurbelowed (not comparable)

1. (dated, possibly obsolete) Furbelowed; ornamented with frill.
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, chapter V, in The Awakening:

     Children, freshly befurbelowed, were gathering for their games under the oaks.

   • 1913, Ethel Watts Mumford, Out of the Ashes‎^[1]:

     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.

See also

• belaced