different between furbelow vs skirting

English

Etymology

Corruption of falbala; first attested in the late 1600s or early 1700s. Not related to fur.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??.b?.l??/, /?f??.b?.l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f?.b?.lo?/, /?f?.b?.lo?/

Noun

furbelow (plural furbelows)

1. A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc.
   • 1863, John George Wood, The Illustrated Natural History, page 745,

     All the other furbelows, and portions of this one^{[this Medusa]} that lay below the expansion, floated as usual through the water, except that on some occasions an accessory power was obtained by pressing a portion of another furbelow to the side of the glass and making it adhere just like the portion that was exposed to the surface of the air.

   • 1964, E. J. H. Corner, The Life of Plants, 2002, University of Chicago Press, page 76,

     Each plant has several oarweed fronds on the top of a flat stem, well adapted to swaying in one direction but rigid in the other; along the rigid edges, where the water flows and eddies, develop the wavy furbelows.

2. A small, showy ornamentation.

Translations

Verb

furbelow (third-person singular simple present furbelows, present participle furbelowing, simple past and past participle furbelowed)

1. (transitive) To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament.

Related terms

• befurbelowed

English

Verb

skirting

1. present participle of skirt

Noun

skirting (countable and uncountable, plural skirtings)

1. Skirting boards collectively.
2. skirts collectively; material for skirts
3. The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it.
   • 1982, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research

     […] superficial: many of their descriptions, together with their own candid and often amusing comments and reactions, are well worth noting and reflecting upon; their skirtings around the laws of defamation are a joy to read and a lesson to us all; […]

Anagrams

• striking