| In his book on orchids he documents the elaborate frills and furbelows, gimmicks and traps, that lure and exploit insect pollinators, thereby ensuring cross-fertilization. |
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| And the question is a reasonable one: her lesser work can seem mired in the frills and furbelows of its own presentation. |
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| The walnut furbelows and carved draperies and pilasters, the inlaid urns and flowers. |
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| Some of the tax code's frills and furbelows are justifiable. |
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| Laura bears an uncanny resemblance to the woman in white, an apparition or mad creature who is never far from the gloom that dampens the characters' operatic flounces and furbelows. |
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| Beneath the furbelows and the rustling silk, it tells the story of a female innocent who's essentially being pimped out to a moneyed playboy by two middle-aged female relatives. |
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| She is Henry James without the furbelows and bibelots and antimacassars. |
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| The general pinkness of complexion and furbelows, the jimpness of the long trim waist, the uncompromising bands of black velvet, the showers of fair ringlets. |
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