Meaning of Frill | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
2. A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
   figuratively
3. A wrinkled edge to a film.
4. Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
   figuratively
5. The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
6. Synonym of armilla.

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Examples

“1777, Samuel Jackson Pratt (as Courtney Melmoth), Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence, London: G. Robinson and J. Bew, Volume 5, Chapter 114, p. 163, […] one of her husband Jeffery’s shirts (with frills to the bosom) […]”

“His face⟳ had fallen in, and was unshorn; his frill and neckcloth hung limp under his bagging waistcoat.”

“Mind⟳ you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep⟳ the ground and have⟳ to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.”

“Nothing moved in sky, land⟳, or sea, except a frill of milkwhite foam along the nearer angles of the shore, shreds of which licked the contiguous stones like⟳ tongues.”

“She had noticed yesterday that a few tiny corkscrew tendrils had come⟳ right through some cracks in the scullery ceiling and all the windows of the lean-to had a thick frill of ruffled green.”

“[T]he bright frills of the winter fungi on the blotched trunks of the trees;”

“‘Isn’t it a shame!’ Mrs Ayres said softly, now and then pausing to brush aside a frill of snow⟳ and examine⟳ the plant⟳ beneath […]”

“My name⟳ is Sammy Carleton. Not ‘Mr.’ Carleton, but just plain Sammy. I’m a regular no-nonsense man with no fancy frills about me. I want⟳ you to call⟳ me Sammy.”

“Every possible economy was carefully investigated and unnecessary expense, however small, eliminated. The company had no money to spare⟳ on "frills."”

“Falling in love⟳, I said. Falling into it, we all did then, one way or another. How could he have⟳ made such light⟳ of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim.”

“Torontonians clutter their brick and stone houses with too much trim, or with window trim and shutters—and they also carve their shutters with hearts or maple leaves—but the snow⟳ conceals these frills;”

“A large admiral lizard leapt up on a rail, stood on hind legs with fore legs raised like⟳ hands and watched for a moment […], then loped down the cess-path with arms swinging and iridescent frill flying out like⟳ a cape […]”

“She reminded Bojan of a desert lizard throwing up its frill to frighten⟳ predators.”

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