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UK
/fɹˈɪl/
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[ US /ˈfɹɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
- ornamental objects of no great value
- an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal
- (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs
How To Use frill In A Sentence
- The trend toward à la carte pricing - once the hallmark of no-frills, low-cost carriers - has in recent years been adopted by the legacy airlines, and will likely continue in 2009, as carriers try to boost what they call ancillary revenue. Latest News
- Another friend notes a shift in the type of gifts given at wedding showers, a reversion to 1950s-style offerings: soup ladles and frilly aprons are being unwrapped along with see-through nighties and push-up bras.
- Both favour the no-frills approach, often eschewing swish restaurants to munch burgers together when they meet. Times, Sunday Times
- But the consumer magazine also noted that people rated the no-frills carriers slightly worse than two years ago.
- No fuss, no frills and great colours. Times, Sunday Times
- It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces. Times, Sunday Times
- She's wearing a print dress, low-cut of course, frilly sleeves, a quarter-inch of makeup, and her hair is dyed midnight black.
- But to read day after day in the paper, this golden domesday-book, the lists of rich people who ate terrapin together, or danced together in lace frills and white cravats afterwards, and to read it with avidity, is what might be done in some world of satire. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01
- Beneath the tough outer casing and linear silhouettes are a feast of soft frills and folds.
- In an article last October, I described how my wife and I planned to chop around £800 a month from our expenses by cutting back on unnecessary luxuries, frills and trimmings.