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verb
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.  (past & past part. frilled; pres. part. frilling)  
1.
To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
2.
(Photog.) To wrinkle; said of the gelatin film.


adjective
frilled  adj.  Furnished with a frill or frills.
Frilled lizard (Zool.), a large Australian lizard (Chlamydosaurus Kingii) about three feet long, which has a large, erectile frill on each side of the neck.





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"Frilled" Quotes from Famous Books



... immediately became the rage among the villagers. One young man of dudish propensities came out with a pair that had been worked in rings of various colors down each leg, while his competitor introduced knee breeches made from fancy bed ticking, heavily frilled at the knees and fancily embroidered in bright colors. The village belles, not to be outdone by the young men, discarded the old bone fish-hooks they had been wearing for ear jewelry and adopted the more natty safety-pin, at the same time making for themselves ...
— Short Sketches from Oldest America • John Driggs
... with its broad shoulder lapelle, the thick dun-coloured shawl in which many a young Patrick has been huddled up, are all visible. The elderly women have a peculiar fondness for large bonnets, decorated in front with huge borders running all round the face like frilled night-caps. The whole of the worshippers at the lower end seem a pre-eminently devotional lot. How they are at home we can't tell; but from the moment they enter the chapel and touch the holy water stoops, which somehow persist in retaining a good thick dark sediment at the bottom, ...
— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus
... down the green length of the old road, the visiting cousin spied interestedly at Sylvia's house and Sylvia's own delicate profile frilled about with lace, drooping like the raceme of some white flower in ...
— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... frilled over into an immense pine forest—very pleasant and cool it looked. Another signpost begged us to keep to the broad path for Schlingen and deposit waste paper and fruit peelings in wire receptacles attached to the benches for the purpose. We sat down on ...
— In a German Pension • Katherine Mansfield
... Mamma. This was not enough of an occasion for the white mull. The silks look hot and citified. Hesitantly she selected the apricot organdie with a deeper-shaded sash; it was simple for all its glowing color, though the short frilled sleeves struck her as perhaps too chic. It had been a copy of one of Lucia's frocks, that one bought to ...
— The Innocent Adventuress • Mary Hastings Bradley


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