Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ruffled, gathered, or pleated border or projection, such as a fabric edge used to trim clothing.
- noun A projection as of hair, feathers, bone, or cartilage, about the neck of an animal.
- noun A wrinkling of the edge of a photographic film.
- noun Informal Something that is desirable but not a necessity; a luxury. synonym: luxury.
- intransitive verb To make into a ruffle or frill.
- intransitive verb To add a ruffle or frill to.
- intransitive verb To become wrinkled along the edge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The shell of a kind of scallop.
- To shiver with cold, as a hawk or other bird.
- To form into a frill; flute or plait: as, to
frill a border in a dress. - To ornament with frills; as, to
frill a child's garment. - To become frilled or ruffled.
- noun A shivering with cold, as a bird; the ruffling of a bird's feathers when shivering with cold.
- noun A narrow ornamental bordering made of a strip of textile material, of which one edge is gathered and the other left loose, as in a narrow flounce; a ruffle.
- noun Hence Anything resembling such a border.
- noun Specifically
- noun The projecting fringe of hair on the chest of some dogs, as the collie.
- noun Some fringing part or process of an animal, like a ruffle; a frilling: as, the genital frills of a hydrozoan.
- noun In hymenomycetous fungi, a superior annulus or ring; an annulus formed of tissue suspended from the apex of the stipe and free at other points, at first forming a membranous covering for the hymenium, but detached as the pileus expands; an armilla.
- noun In photography, the swelling and loosening of a gelatin film around the edges of a plate. See
frill , verb - noun An affectation of dress or of manner; an air: usually in the plural: as, he puts on too many frills.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To shake or shiver as with cold.
- intransitive verb (Photog.) To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
- transitive verb To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits.
- noun A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
- noun A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
- noun A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
- noun A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
- noun A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
- noun Something superfluous, such as an ornament, or an additional function on a device or in a system not essential to the basic operation. -- Commonly used in the phrase no frills, used adjectively to indicate a fully functional but economical device or service.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A strip of
pleated material used asdecoration ortrim ; aruffle . - noun photography A
wrinkled edge to a film. - noun A
luxury . - verb To make something into a frill.
- verb To become wrinkled.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ornamental objects of no great value
- noun (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs
- noun an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal
- noun a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Champagne tickles and you get a thrill and the frill is short lived, but a fine wine?
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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.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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... a short term frill, usually a mistake - a drunken one in some cases, and best forgotten till the next ...
NAACHGAANA 2008
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... a short term frill, usually a mistake - a drunken one in some cases, and best forgotten till the next ...
NAACHGAANA 2008
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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.
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Drama Club is not a "frill," it's part of a well-rounded education.
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Drama Club is not a "frill," it's part of a well-rounded education.
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Pictured: The sleeveless floral "frill" dress for Spring 2011 by DKNY.
Mary Hall: New York Fashion Week DKNY Spring 2011 Collection: Big Apple of My Eye 2010
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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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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.
Virgin Soil 2003
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