A corruption of falbala, a word in French, Italian, and Spanish to signify a sort of flounce.
“Flounced and furbelowed from head to foot.”—Addison.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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