furbelows
Showy dress trimmings
Furbelows are frills, ruffles, or showy ornamental trimmings on clothing or fabric.
The word extends to any excessive or fussy decoration: a dress laden with furbelows.
Usually plural and often disparaging, suggesting ornamentation that's overdone or unnecessary: She had no patience for furbelows and frippery.
Decorative addition or exaggeration
- adornmentDecorative addition or accessory
- decorationObject adding visual appeal
- fineryElegant, showy clothing
- fripperyShowy, worthless adornment
gewgaw · bauble · trinket · filigree · spangle · sequin · brocade · gilt
Open-weave ornamental fabric
- fringeOutermost edge or margin
- tasselsOrnamental hanging tufts
- braidInterwoven strand pattern
- pipingTubes for fluid transport
edging · ribbon · beading · cording · applique · embroidery · rickrack · gimp
embellishment
Decorative addition or exaggeration
- adornmentDecorative addition or accessory
- decorationObject adding visual appeal
- fineryElegant, showy clothing
frippery · gewgaw · bauble · trinket · filigree · spangle · sequin · brocade · gilt · flourish
lace
Open-weave ornamental fabric
piping · edging · ribbon · beading · cording · applique · embroidery · rickrack · gimp · pompom
ruffle
Pleated fabric edging
shirring · tuck · pucker · fluting · godet · rosette · swag · cascade · tier · layering
seaweed
Saltwater aquatic plants
holdfast · stipe · marine · tidal · wrack · kombu · rockweed · intertidal
furbelowsplainness
Unadorned, straightforward quality
simplicity · austerity · unadorned · bare · minimalism
furbelowsunderstated
Deliberately minimized in expression
restrained · modest · subtle · unfussy · streamlined
furbelowsminimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
austerity · restraint · understatement · spareness · asceticism