[f. prec. sb.] trans. To ornament with a furbelow, or with something resembling a furbelow.
1701. Lond. Gaz., No. 3743/4. Lost … a Deal Box … having in it a rich Scarf forbulo’d with a rich Gold Lace.
1731–7. Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Chelone, Many flat Seeds, that are furbelow’d on the Edges.
1760–72. trans. Juan & Ulloa’s Voy. (ed. 3), I. 157. It is furbeloed with a richer stuff, near half a yard in depth.
1840. Dickens, Barn. Rudge (1849), 74/2. Many a private chair too, inclosing some fine lady, monstrously hooped and furbelowed.
1865. L. Oliphant, Piccadilly (1870), 222. Trains of daughters, furbelowed and flounced by the same dressmakers.
fig. 1709–10. Addison, Tatler, No. 116 ¶ 2. Very florid Harangues, which they did not fail to set off and furbelow (if I may be allowed the Metaphor) with many periodical Sentences.
1717. Prior, Alma, II. 44. To break their points, you turn their force, And furbelow the plain discourse.
absol. 1784. R. Bage, Barham Downs, I. 171. They could trim, flounce, and furbelow to admiration.
Hence Furbelowed ppl. a.
1703. Farquhar, Inconstant, II. i. Have you got home your furbelowed smocks yet?
1713. Steele, Guardian, No. 142, 24 Aug., ¶ 5. I am now rearing up a set of fine furbelowed dock-leaves, which will be exceeding proper for old women and superannuated maids.
1835. Beckford, Recoll., 104. A lugubrious image of our Lady of the Seven Dolours, placed under a most sumptuously fringed and furbelowed canopy of purple velvet.
1861. J. R. Greene, Man. Anim. Kingd., Cœlent., 123. It terminates in four furbelowed lips.
