furbelow
英 ['f??b?l??]
美['f?bl,o]
- n. 俗麗的裝飾；衣裙邊飾
- vt. 飾以俗麗的裝飾；飾縐褶于……上
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?furbelows;過去式:?furbelowed;過去分詞:?furbelowed;現在分詞:?furbelowing;
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 Proven?al 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.
