furbelow是什么意思
- 英式英标[\'fɝbl,o]
- 美式音标[\'fɜːbɪləʊ]
n. 俗丽的装饰;衣裙边饰
vt. 饰以俗丽的装饰;饰绉褶于……上
英文词源
- 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.