Negresses, Mexicans, Peruvians, Chilians, and Chinese women decked out in furbelows and flounces, are seen hand in hand, and side by side with men who drink, and dance, and stamp, and shout for joy, to the sound of infernal music.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
And he thought of other women-a crowd of them, with high, shrill tones and constant foolish cackle of meaningless laughter; of the atmosphere of paint, powder, furbelows, flirtation, empty gaiety, feverish flippancy.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
I am seventy if I am a day, and look it, and if it were not for these furbelows I would look eighty.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith