FURBELOWED Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

furbelowed

verb

past tense of furbelow

as in embroidered

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Verb

Pop its collar to reveal the House Check embroidered directly on the leather.

— Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 10 Nov. 2026
And a black satin long pouch is embroidered with 125 rhinestones of varying shapes in a graphic pattern, fitting for the anniversary year.

— Katie Abel, Footwear News, 9 Nov. 2026

Definition of embroidered

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In addition to the pool at the spa, the hotel has a main pool area fringed with palm trees, with sunken loungers in the shallows and Nile views at every turn.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026
In flight, hunting mode takes over, and piercing yellow eyes, fringed with blue circles, scour the sea for prey.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of fringed

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After the hair is parted into sections, each section is twisted or braided.

— Eden Stuart, Allure, 26 Oct. 2026
His creator, an unnamed basket-weaver (Peter Dinklage), braided him as a mate for a lonely virgin, a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who stomps around her rustic village smelling like sushi and tossing her head back in an Eliza Doolittle guffaw.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of braided

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So this figured to be a different game than what was planned, with the Wolverines shorthanded on the bench and UConn having to function without its best player.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 5 Nov. 2026
She’s figured centrally in the government’s efforts to find and prosecute noncitizen voters.

— Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of figured

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In the bathroom, there are shuttered windows wreathed with Como silk and a luscious roll-top bath.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
On a hill wreathed in mist above the dark sea that runs between New Zealand’s North and South Islands, Ward and others crossed rugged farmland late on Tuesday night, carrying seven crates in silence by dim red torchlight.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026

Definition of wreathed

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Reading it is like opening the hall closet and having the contents of an antique junk shop, laced with spiky and rusted farm implements, spill out and maim your dog.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
Related Curry’s Frank was easy to swallow but tough to follow — many who have laced up the corset since then have glimmered, but always in Curry’s shadow.

— Joe Lynch, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of laced

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Ruff and Kriemler were reunited in Paris on Thursday thanks to the Paris Photo art fair at the Grand Palais, where Ruff took center stage with two dozen of his meticulous, mostly large-scale works hung across the 120-foot entrance wall.

— Miles Socha, Footwear News, 12 Nov. 2026
Police said her clothes hung from her frame and were sized for an infant.

— Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of hung

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The city’s greatest sight is perhaps the Hospicio Cabañas, an early-19th-century orphanage with a chapel where José Clemente Orozco painted 57 frescoes in the late 1930s.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 8 Nov. 2026
Abdi worries that Miller’s latest promotion will further anti-immigrant policies, which have long painted Iranians and other immigrant communities as threats.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026

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