I've heard the word furbelows before in one of my favorite movies ever, Anne of Green Gables. In the first part of the series, Marilla, an uptight but loving spinster who has adopted the orphan Anne, is explaining to her why she can't have puffy sleeves on the dress that is being made for her. She says "we can't waste material on ridiculous looking frills and furbelows", so I think it is an unnecessary extravagance. Movie was set in Prince Edward Island in the early 1900's.
Faithful reader but infrequent poster, Rene "Bringing in the Cheese" Solak > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:30:27 -0700 > From: "Martha Humphreys" <mhumphr...@knology.net> > Subject: furbelows > To: <wbmutbb@wbmutbb.com> > Message-ID: <001e01ca2239$a36eac60$6801a...@nancydrew> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > "In all my borned days I still have never encountered this word outside of > that one TAGS episode." > > Haven't done any formal study, but my thinking is that basically Elizabethan > words and phrasings show up in Mayberry--as well as in other parts of NC and > on the eastern shore of VA. > > Martha, the too-busy-to-conduct-a-researched-study > Huntsville, AL > > **************************************** _________________________________________________________________ Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1 _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
