Word Meanings - FURBELOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.
Related words: (words related to FURBELOW)
- GATHER
1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. When small humors gather to a gout. Pope. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. Tennyson. 2. To grow larger - GARMENT
Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16. - WOMANLY
Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne. - GARMENTURE
Clothing; dress. - GATHERER
An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects. - WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
Womanhood. Chaucer. - GATHERABLE
Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin. - WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work. - WOMANHOOD
1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2. - WOMANIZE
To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox. - PLAITED
Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. Shak. - PLAIT
of plicare to fold, akin to plectere to plait. See Ply, and cf. Plat 1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison. 2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. Polish plait. Same - WOMANLIKE
Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson. - WOMANLESS
Without a woman or women. - WOMAN
1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel. 2. To make effeminate or womanish. Shak. 3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. "To have him see me woman'd." Shak. - PLAITER
One who, or that which, plaits. - WOMANKIND
The females of the human race; women, collectively. A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne. - GARMENTED
Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley. - WOMANLINESS
The quality or state of being womanly. There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. Udall. - FLOUNCE
An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging. - AIRWOMAN
A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft. - MEGATHEROID
One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc. - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - UNWOMAN
To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning. - NOBLEWOMAN
A female of noble rank; a peeress. - TAXGATHERER
One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n. - BONDSWOMAN
See BONDWOMAN - UPGATHER
To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser. - NEEDLEWOMAN
A woman who does needlework; a seamstress. - DAIRYWOMAN
A woman who attends to a dairy. - GENTLEWOMAN
1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak. - HERDSWOMAN
A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott. - SALESWOMAN
A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.