frill
IPA: frˈɪɫ
noun
- A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
- (figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
- (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
- (figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
- (zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
verb
- (transitive) To make into a frill.
- (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
- (transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
- (intransitive, obsolete, falconry) To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).
- (intransitive, obsolete, falconry) To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).
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Examples of "frill" in Sentences
- Markings are marked on the frill.
- The size of the frill was measured.
- The dress had frills round the shoulders.
- I like the ruffles and frills on your dress.
- The frill is much reduced, and the jaw expanded.
- A large frill adorns the upper part of the neck.
- The frill looks very much like the sample drawings.
- The frill is full of holes and covered in a waxy adhesive.
- The breed is known for its small size and frill of neck feathers.
- Drama Club is not a "frill," it's part of a well-rounded education.
- Pictured: The sleeveless floral "frill" dress for Spring 2011 by DKNY.
- The frill consists mostly of the parietal bone and partially of the squamosal.
- Champagne tickles and you get a thrill and the frill is short lived, but a fine wine?
- ... a short term frill, usually a mistake - a drunken one in some cases, and best forgotten till the next ...
- She wears a vest, fitting closely to the arms and bust, and at the neck gathered to a frill, which is enclosed by a torque, or gold necklet.
- Though both dinosaurs sported three facial horns, the Torosaurus had a bigger "frill" - the bony shield atop its head - with two large holes in it.
- They are exactly like one another, except that one wears a mob-cap, the other a skull-cap, which is trimmed with the same kind of frill, only without ribbons.
- But her focus, front and center, is on employers eliminating work/life initiatives as the kind of frill that naturally gets suspended in hard times, and that in a recession workers just want to keep their nose to the grindstone anyway.
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