furbelow
英 ['fɜːbɪləʊ]
美 ['fɝbl,o]
- n. 俗麗的裝飾；衣裙邊飾
- vt. 飾以俗麗的裝飾；飾縐褶於……上
英文詞源
- furbelow (n.)
- "puffed flounce, plaited border," c. 1700, folk-etymology alteration (as if fur below) of falbala, from French falbala (17c., cognate with Provençal farbello), from Italian falda "fold, flap, pleat," from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *faldan, from PIE *pel- (3) "to fold" (see fold (v.)). As a verb from 1701.