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befurbelowed en · ADJ

Etymology

From be- + furbelow + -ed.

Meanings

1. (dated, not-comparable, obsolete, possibly) Furbelowed; ornamented with frill.
   • Children, freshly befurbelowed, were gathering for their games under the oaks. 1899, Kate Chopin, chapter V, in The Awakening:
   • 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. 1913, Ethel Watts Mumford, Out of the Ashes:

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belaced