frilly

[ fril-ee ]

/ ˈfrɪl i /

covered with or marked by frills: Some of the more elaborate dress shirts have frilly fronts.

frivolous; inconsequential: After a day of intense concentration and serious business, they feel like doing something frilly and amusing.

Nearby words

First recorded in 1835–45; frill + -y¹

Related formsfrill·i·ness, nounun·frill·y, adjective

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New Orleanians loved the frilly, pale lavender flowers and gradually planted them as decorations around the city in garden ponds.
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Next out was Madeline, a one-and-a-half year old Sphinx in a frilly pink ballerina outfit.
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Flourishes of ruffles spread out from beneath the hemline, like a frilly skirt.
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What could have been a frilly flop was given weight by DiCaprio and Mulligan, and Maguire, too.
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But instead of frilly unmentionables under the tissue paper, there were pages and pages of printed-out signatures and comments.
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And Brenton, too tired to be really weary, never once left his chair beside the frilly crib.
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Anthea hastily took off Jane's frilly lace collar and handed it to the woman who seemed most friendly.
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Not the kind you have on note-paper, but a frilly thing on his head.
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The two frilly night-dresses, the other chemise, the other petticoat, the extra stockings?
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“Office notions are not so nice as the frilly, cry-on-a-shoulder-when-the-biscuits-burn notions,” she would end, dolefully.
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