Definition of frills Frills
/fɹɪˈlz/ - [frilz] -
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What does frills mean?
Wiktionary 
- frills (Noun)
Plural of frill.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: frills |
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| frill - a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | ||
| flounce, ruffle, furbelow | ||
| adornment the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting | ||
| gauffer, goffer an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats | ||
| jabot a ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt | ||
| frill - (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs | ||
| plate dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten | ||
| frill - an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal | ||
| ruff | ||
| frill - ornamental objects of no great value | ||
| folderal, falderol, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery | ||
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Wiktionary
- frill (Noun)
A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle. - frill (Noun)
A wrinkled edge to a film. - frill (Noun)
A luxury. - frill (Verb)
To make something into a frill. - frill (Verb)
To become wrinkled. - frill (Verb)
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- frill (v. i.)
To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills. - frill (v. i.)
To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film. - frill (v. t.)
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap. - frill (v. i.)
A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold. - frill (v. i.)
A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal. - frill (v. i.)
A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals. - frill (v. i.)
A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells. - frill (v. i.)
A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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frill
fril, v.i. to ruffle, as a hawk its feathers, when shivering.—v.t. to furnish with a frill.—n. a ruffle: a ruffled or crimped edging of linen.—ns. Frilled′-liz′ard, a lizard with an extraordinary frilled membrane attached to the hinder part of the head, neck, and chest, and covering its shoulders; Frill′ing, frilled edging. [Usually conn. with O. Fr. friller, to shiver; but prob. related to furl.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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frill
Was an ornamental appendage to the shirt which officers and soldiers generally wore with regimentals. A small aperture was usually made at the top to admit the hook and eye of the uniform coat. Enlisted men generally wore frills detached from the coat.
