英単語

furbelowの意味・使い方・発音

furbelow

英 ['fɜːbɪləʊ] 美 ['fɝbl,o]
  • n. 下品な飾り;ボディスの飾り
  • vt.下品な装飾で飾り立てること。

英語の語源


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.

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