frill

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /fɹɪl/ Rhymes: -ɪl === Etymology 1 === Of uncertain origin. ==== Noun ==== frill (plural frills) A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim. Synonyms: flounce, furbelow, ruffle 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,[2] […] one of her husband Jeffery’s shirts (with frills to the bosom) […] (figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric. (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film. (figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury. (zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one. Synonym: neck frill (mycology) Synonym of armilla. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== jabot ==== Verb ==== frill (third-person singular simple present frills, present participle frilling, simple past and past participle frilled) (transitive) To make into a frill. (intransitive) To become wrinkled. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits. 1863, Charles Dickens, Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings, Chapter 4, in All the Year Round, Volume 10, Extra Christmas Number, 3 December, 1863, p. 35,[7] Mrs. Sandham, formerly Kate Barford, is working at a baby’s frock, and asking now and then the advice of her sister, who is frilling a little cap. ===== Derived terms ===== friller ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Old French friller. ==== Verb ==== frill (third-person singular simple present frills, present participle frilling, simple past and past participle frilled) (intransitive, obsolete, falconry) To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk). (intransitive, obsolete, falconry) To cry (with reference to a bird of prey). 1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, Chester: for the author, Book 2, Chapter 13, “Of the Voices of Birds,” p. 310,[8] The Eagle Frilleth, or Scriketh The Hawk, as Falcon, Gawshawk, and all such Birds of Prey, cryeth, peepeth, or frilleth. === References ===