Frill

Quick meaning: Frill is a noun meaning A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.

Meaning

A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
2. (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
3. (figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
4. (zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
5. (mycology) Synonym of armilla.
6. (transitive) To make into a frill.
7. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.

Example Sentences

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

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

‘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.

Word Forms

• frills
• frilling
• frilled

Synonyms for frill

Depending on context, synonyms include flounce, furbelow, ruffle, armilla.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ruffle, furbelow, flounce, superfluity, fringe, shirt-frill.

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