frilling
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of frilling
Example Sentences
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The orange of the enormous lip and the frilling specially fine.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
There were silk petticoats with torn frilling, and shoes and slippers.
From The Lion's Mouse by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
His Frieda was a merry industrious girl who sewed muslin in a frilling factory, and hoarded up the groschen she earned in order to save enough money to be married some day.
From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz
Then gradually the frilling at her neck lapped upwards and upwards, until last year she astonished every one by wearing quite a high collar at a time when it was completely out of fashion.
From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by Doyle, A. Conan
"I eats them," said Stella, reversing her small cauliflower-like person on the sofa till only a circle of white rims with a nucleus of coventry frilling, with two pink legs kicking gently upward, were visible.
From Red Pottage by Cholmondeley, Mary
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