How To Use Frill In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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Both favour the no-frills approach, often eschewing swish restaurants to munch burgers together when they meet.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the consumer magazine also noted that people rated the no-frills carriers slightly worse than two years ago.
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No fuss, no frills and great colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's wearing a print dress, low-cut of course, frilly sleeves, a quarter-inch of makeup, and her hair is dyed midnight black.
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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
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Beneath the tough outer casing and linear silhouettes are a feast of soft frills and folds.
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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.
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Some dresses feature freaky frilled hemlines, and striped suits were shown with dramatic hats that wouldn't have looked out of place at Ascot.
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The frills are the only parts which you need to iron.
Married Life The True Romance
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“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 upwards, were visible.
Red Pottage
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Did his job with no fuss or frills.
The Sun
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There is barely anything more soul-destroying than a no-frills flight.
Times, Sunday Times
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The problem is that I have no first-hand knowledge of the past in Alice Springs except sepia prints of people in suits and big frilly skirts.
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Pin, tack and stitch along the remaining three sides, including frill or piping, if using.
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He made a noise of what I took to be assent, muffled as it was by the furious flapping of his frilly pinny over the shrieking smoke alarm.
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Even the more rowdy numbers managed to combine hip-thrusting, frilly-shirted swagger with no hint of tumescent, swollen subtext.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wearing a frilly white bikini top and barely there bottoms, she looked absolutely sensational.
The Sun
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Unlike the previous years, this year the idols' pates have been decorated with white intricately designed frills called ‘dakarsaj.’
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This was to impress on visitors that shareholders'and customers'money was spent on essentials, not frills.
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Really, child, I could spend three months in the Engadine for the price of one decent month at Newport; the parasols, gloves, fans, shoes, 'frillies' -- enough to stock the Rue de la Paix, to say nothing of gowns -- but why do I run on?
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
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To my delight, it really is frilled and ruffled.
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Interesting prints and misplaced frills make these pieces to treasure.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm saying that at least in my experience, the "frills" -- things like commenting and graphics -- for OO aren't compatible with similar frills in MS Office.
Open Office or Microsoft Office? What do you think?
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The story is told without frills and if you find yourself choking with emotion practically all the way through, it doesn't feel faked.
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What better time for lace and silk, bows and frills in the undies department?
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What better time for lace and silk, bows and frills in the undies department?
Times, Sunday Times
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Relatively dressed down, in frilly blouse and trousers, she certainly looked the part.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, in a distant Missionary way he asked them certain questions, — as why little Joe had that hole in his frill, who said, Pa, Flopson was going to mend it when she had time, — and how little Fanny came by that whitlow, who said,
Great Expectations
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The probation trust needs to cut back on frills and extras like this.
The Sun
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When the University of California, Berkeley announced this fall it was cutting funding for its venerable 118-year-old baseball team, the program was a money-sucking sponge that drew few fans and even fewer sponsors to its no-frills campus ballyard.
The Cal Baseball Resurrection
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It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces.
Times, Sunday Times
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“Look at this,” says my mother, holding up an elaborately gemmed and frilly princess gown.
Left Neglected
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A single bulb hung from the ceiling and some one had adorned it with a preposterously frilly white shade.
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It was fairly simple: having no frills or flounces, yet it was that simplicity that made the dress so appealing.
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There was a dress I liked - yes - there it was, an old rose-coloured one with a frilled skirt.
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My beater is a Win. 67, given to me by a brother-in-law in 1952, no frills or foofaraw, or scope, just a very dependable single shot .22 that I have killed hundreds of squirrels and rabbits with, and wouldn't trade it for a boat load of tricked-out 10/22s.
Trigger Happy
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In combination with forward directed postorbital horns and massive fan-shaped frill, cranial epi-ossifications may have enhanced visual display and species communication in Triceratops.
Triceratops cranial epi-ossifications
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Although not as strong this season as he was last, his mix of military and matelot, flouncy frills and soigné slimness will be popular in the Hamptons.
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My no-frills airline - pressurised air?
Times, Sunday Times
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She sat now on a little stool that she had made for herself of empty tomato cans, covered with gaily flowered cretonne, and drawing back the muslin frilled curtains, looked wearily over the fields.
The Second Chance
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What has a frilly blouse got to do with world domination?
Times, Sunday Times
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Her fingers went back to the frilling, and she turned her head sullenly away from me.
The Moonstone
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Think luxe fabrics like velvet and brocade teamed with sumptuous bows and frills.
The Sun
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The rooms are filled with frou-frou frills, flowery saucers used as ashtrays, china figurines and over-gilded frames.
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She wore a conservative blouse of dark cream chiffon, with a high, frilled collar and ruffles up the front.
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Frilly, I will be kicking Senior Fingerbang's culo and riding into Paris in Yellow.
Ground Beef: Crash Course in Bottom Bracket Interfaces
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This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges.
Times, Sunday Times
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It added frills, like first-class sections.
THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF MARKETING
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The airline said it would restructure its European short-haul business to compete with no-frills carriers.
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I can't be bothered with putting a mortgage on my house just to buy a frilly ascot!
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She described it as red with pink frills.
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It had frills at the end of the sleeves and exposed her shoulders.
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His collars were frilly lace, his hair wavy and long.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Try a crisp white shirt to offset your jazzy trousers, or a frilly blouse and neat knit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The petals may be overlapped, recurved, frilled, crinkled or ruffled.
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Nobody has ever unpacked my suitcase before, frillies and all.
Times, Sunday Times
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The frills will add detail and shape, while the belt emphasises your waist.
The Sun
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There were tucks and folds and frills and bows and lace and rhinestones and embroidery and ribbons all over it.
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The term multicultural and its perceived focus on frills has turned off many of the doubters I know.
Christianity Today
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Painted in red, the brawny, no-frills vehicle with a canvas top advertises its military credentials with elan.
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Jet Blue and Southwest Airlines both offer no frills cheap airfare to Las Vegas.
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Rationing, which existed until 1951, was still in place and the diet consisted of basic, no-frills meals.
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Soft, fluid fabrics will flatter your curves, but avoid frills and garish prints, as these will drown you.
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An eclectic mix of feminine flounce and frill, with models in georgettes, net and chiffons was the highlight.
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Yes, there she was, beribboned and frilled, a grave look on her face as she ate while around her grown men traded subtle insults and subtler hints, and the women gossiped, gossip with as many messages hidden in it as any man's talk.
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Millions of extra seats will be available during the summer as no-frills carriers begin new routes.
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I should't have thought a missionary was such a big bug that he could afford to put on frills.
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PERRY MASON - SEASON 1, VOLUME 2 another no-friller has been announced for a November release.
Perry Mason? Allow Me To Refresh Your Memory
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Unflouncy apart from a touch of frill at the back, this winner sported a demure v-neck, sleek, unfussy hair and understated makeup.
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The huge, heavy ‘frill’ of ceratopsians such as Triceratops may have served as armor against the attacks of saurischian predators like Tyrannosaurus, which lived in the same time and place as Triceratops.
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Try something unexpected like a blouse with a frilled front or lace cuffs under a plain sweater or a tailored jacket.
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Those things are for frillies and they mess up my hair.
Parroting: Continual Conversations with the Road
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Even his outfit will be a no-frills, casual black ensemble.
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a paper frill round, and call a nosegay or a posy.
The Luckiest Girl in the School
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The anarchic traffic on Chinese roads takes its toll on low - frills vehicles and luxury cars alike.
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Combined with hip TV advertising, the no-frills brand has become ultra trendy.
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Interesting prints and misplaced frills make these pieces to treasure.
Times, Sunday Times
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All in black, up to the throat; black frilling round that, black gloves, and a long black veil hanging down behind.
The Lady from the Sea
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No fuss, no frills, just straight to the point.
The Sun
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The frilly flowers have a strong scent and long stems.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pictured: The sleeveless floral "frill" dress for Spring 2011 by DKNY.
Mary Hall: New York Fashion Week DKNY Spring 2011 Collection: Big Apple of My Eye
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When you are the founder of a company, you want to skimp on frills; they seem like a waste of money to you.
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Most have ornate, fenestrated frills, and the skulls are all fairly well-known.
Archive 2009-03-01
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One of his wooden-made yankee clocks is here – its case displaying "a most elegant picture" of Cupid, in frilled trowsers and morocco boots, the American prototype of the little god not being allowed to appear so scantily clad as he is generally represented.
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
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I want my undulating undies with the marabou frills.
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A room with bright yellow curtains tied with white bows, daisy-chain wallpaper and a narrow frilled bed.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Nor does it require added frills, but Chevrier has piled them on anyway.
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The no-frills principle is being applied to the cinema chain.
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There was a dress I liked - yes - there it was, an old rose-coloured one with a frilled skirt.
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I'm all harkening back to the dark ages when women wore steel corsets and frilly aprons and high heels to vacumn in and everyone worried about spinsterdom.
Weeme Diary Entry
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I grinned, picturing my mother dashing back and forth in the kitchen, clad in a frilly pink apron and caked with flour, a sewing needle in one hand and a whisk in the other.
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The difference between the traditional airlines and low-cost carriers will be that with the no-frills operators the passenger will have to pay up for their snacks in the cabin.
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Between the no-frills shirtdresses in starched white poplin and the sharp pantsuits that were just fashion forward enough, there was plenty for the corporate woman to choose from.
Luxury Is A La Mode At Celine, Galliano, Givenchy & Akris (PHOTOS)
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My beater is a Win. 67, given to me by a brother-in-law in 1952, no frills or foofaraw, or scope, just a very dependable single shot .22 that I have killed hundreds of squirrels and rabbits with, and wouldn't trade it for a boat load of tricked-out 10/22s.
Trigger Happy
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Some may consider them unnecessary frills, but when you meet the users it becomes obvious why these things matter.
Times, Sunday Times
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I split some of the wood very fine and 'frilled' a few of the little sticks with my knife.
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts
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Definitely one of the best small clubs in the world," according to DJ Zinc, Plastic People is a no-frills, low-ceilinged, sub-200 capacity boxroom, with a distinct lack of lighting and a heavy, heavy sound system.
10 of the best clubs in London
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Take this argument to its logical conclusion, and practically all kinky wank material's off-limits - up to and including that pinkest, frilliest, fluffiest and ickiest of fem-sub fantasies.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Gone are the days of chambermaids wearing black smocks, frilly white aprons and lace caps.
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In the watery foreground a buxom nude with an elaborate headdress is carried away on frilly waves by an aged, bearded merman with a tortoise-shell shield.
Masterful Engravers
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So now we have an alternative to my bottles of pungent vinaigrette and I confess that this dressing actually is better paired with the soft, delicate lettuces our beloved Tantre green frillies that are available now.
Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: What to put on all those salads...
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Judging by this dress, her next one will be a friller.
The Sun
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No fuss, no frills, just straight to the point.
The Sun
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Mixed with softer, more feminine elements, such as tiered cotton skirts and frilled shirts, this look is extremely wearable.
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Both favour the no-frills approach, often eschewing swish restaurants to munch burgers together when they meet.
Times, Sunday Times
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She landed back to find a suitcase containing her frilly smalls was missing.
The Sun
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She had been on the front porch and he had ridden up the long avenue, dressed in grey broadcloth with a wide black cravat setting off his frilled shirt to perfection.
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This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Can you still get a no-frills flight to Palma?
Times, Sunday Times
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The eye asks if the green, frilled geranium puckers, clustered at angles on each stem, are similar enough to stop time.
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It consists mostly of couples in their fifties who are wearing shiny shoes and frilly shirts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many a bride has registered for frilly tableware.
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Donald's focus underscores a basic fact in business today: Training and learning are not extras or frills.
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It was frilly and pretty, but itchy and uncomfortable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The range will include a Gore-Tex evening dress with a lace print made from the fabric, skirts, fitted frilly jackets and raincoats with delicate floral prints.
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Revenue may be up on short-haul flights for the first time in a long time, but BA knows it can never transform itself into a low-frills carrier.
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The muslin gowns had been very successful; the skirts fell in a straight line from the waistband high under their arms to their feet, one with a little edge of fine white embroidery, the other with a frill scarcely to be called a flounce round the foot.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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With its no-frills, unplastered concrete walls and battered equipment, half of the thrill of training there is its edgy feel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inside it was like a Victorian jumble sale with kitsch ornaments everywhere, and the cluttered rooms lit only by the orange glow of 40-watt bulbs in frilly lampshades.
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The pieces are cut very simply with no extra frills and it only comes in the one colour, dove grey.
The Sun
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At the same time, youth counsellors have been cut out of Toronto's public education system as a frill.
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There was enough for the body and the sleeves, but not enough for the frills on the sleeve or the button band.
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This sissy would like to confess their long term sissiness whilst wearing her frilly white trimmed panties and grey dress to Mistress Cassie.
We Blog A Lot
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Children's clothing now allows for a lot of freedom of movement, and dainty frocks and frilled shirts are strictly for birthday parties and such.
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No fuss or frills, just get the job done and move on.
The Sun
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Think no-frills wooden huts on stilts on the sand, complete with hammocks and mosquito nets and secured with a padlock.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mimi is the cuter, frillier one with the adorable dog Chiffon.
Choco Mimi Book 1 » Manga Worth Reading
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So blogger Jason Roe finds what he thinks is an error on the RyanAir site that would let you buy airfare from the zero-frills a-la-carte Irish airline for free.
The Consumerist: February 2009 Archives
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This was the battle between the no-frills airlines and the package tour operators.
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They are exactly like one another, except that one wears a mob-cap, the other a skull-cap, which is trimmed with the same kind of frill, only without ribbons.
Virgin Soil
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This required HUD to change the rules prohibiting any frills -- such as gables, cornices or materials more sumptuous than brick -- that might enhance the surroundings of welfare recipients at the expense of taxpayers.
Toppling Towers
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To overcome the wax problem one may use a paper frill, or a silver foil mince pie container to create a collar containing the wax.
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Cindy had the decency to get dressed, at least, although she was dressed in a ridiculously glamorous dress with lace and frills.
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There are few frills but this adds to its charm.
Times, Sunday Times
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The frilled, flounced and furbelowed 1850s grew more ornate with each passing day and even the littlest humans were as loaded with ribbons, bows, embroidery and lace as any Parisian belle.
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I was allowed to attend the ceremony, to which I wore a beautiful pair of bottle-green velvet short trousers which Mum sewed for me, a pair of fire-engine red patent leather buckled shoes, white socks, and a little white shirt with smocking and a frilly round collar, extremely smart.
Archive 2009-03-01
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It added frills, like first-class sections.
THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF MARKETING
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This no-frills brand uses niacinamide and liquorice to brighten and lighten any sun damage and hyperpigmentation.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the San Francisco Chronicle declared that it is ‘a routine thriller, with Western frills and fringes’.
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Even with partners on low incomes they can choose a no-frills life and stay home instead of outsourcing childcare when children are very young.
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The red ruffle detail dress is flirty and fun with frills falling from the hem and shoulder for a ravishing party look.
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No fuss, no frills and great colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new no-frills bank will concentrate on consumer credit and mortgages and will initially focus on the UK market.
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Along with the word lingerie used in place of undergarments, other terms changed to reflect the emphasis on seduction; the shift was first called a camisole and then simply known as a “slip” by this period, drawers turning into knickers and petticoats into “frillies “.
Edwardians Unbuttoned | Edwardian Promenade
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The only alibi he can provide for the night of the murder is that he was being spanked by a tart in frilly knickers.
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‘Our clients are paying for our services, not the extra frills of working from the glassy palaces of Covent Garden,’ he said.
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The doll wore a frilly, pale pink dress with a lacy shawl, but as I looked down the line, they were all dressed similarly.
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Both favour the no-frills approach, often eschewing swish restaurants to munch burgers together when they meet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Think luxe fabrics like velvet and brocade teamed with sumptuous bows and frills.
The Sun
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With little frills between, oh!
Times, Sunday Times
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The dresses held an atmosphere of evaporated frivolity; flirtations lingered in every frill, and memories of old larks lurked in every furbelow.
Mr. Opp
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Its ugliness was disguised by the leafy frills of an ancient wisteria whose tributaries reached the eaves of the terracotta tiled roof.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Semidouble dark red plum two - tone frilled star. Medium green, plain, pointed, serrated. Standard.
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Their frilled petals are the palest lavender-pink, almost white, and they have fine pink lines which lead into the greenish yellow depths.
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Think no-frills wooden huts on stilts on the sand, complete with hammocks and mosquito nets and secured with a padlock.
Times, Sunday Times
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The frill is obtained by sewing a channel through a double thickness of fabric below the top of the curtain.
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She finally settled on French toast, and rose in her night gown that matched the yellow walls, with light frills on the bottom and sleeves.
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There are few frills but this adds to its charm.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is very important to note that she was wearing a white frilly dress that was still in perfect condition.
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No fuss, no frills and great colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's like a coil of silk with knitting wool and big sparkly gold frilly bits.
The Sun
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However, when fashion decreed crinolines, bustles, and fussy late-Victorian frills and flounces, Australia tried to follow.
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I envisaged something large and frilly with a frothy veil.
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There are frilly lime-green babydoll nightdresses that look as tasteful as they sound.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of these follow the Easy concept of stripping away the frills to make the product or service cheaper, but the results have been hit and miss.
Times, Sunday Times
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They don't include a whole lot of frills and extras, but the end result is a cheaper priced board.
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Her face was inscrutable, but her fingers clenched and unclenched beneath the frilled gingham of her pinafore.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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The bifoliate species have mostly smaller flowers, some with waxy petals and sepals and less frilly lips.
Article Source
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Or add on the frills, scrunched sleeves and bows for a very very feminine blouse, like the pink Vuitton one on the right.
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With little frills between, oh!
Times, Sunday Times
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It's 1981: the world has fallen under the spell of music performed by effete blokes in frilly shirts and trowled-on make-up.
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She wore a black cotton frock with a very full skirt and frilly lace-edged petticoat underneath it, just showing.
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And there's been more from the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, papers on the "rauisuchian" archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis; the ontogeny of Stegosaurus; ontogenetic and taxonomic implications of pattern and transition of surficial bone texture of the centrosaurine frill; and Adeopapposaurus, a new prosauropod dinosaur from Argentina.
"Fill the night with stories. The legend grows."
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One variety has double flowers that are a mass of frills but it almost seems like too much perfection in one flower.
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Women borrowed jackets, ties, hats and other styles from menswear to construct less frilly and ornamental ensembles.
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Major carriers at the airport are taking on their no-frills competitors with a range of low-cost fares on domestic and European routes.
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Today Manchester Airport managing director John Spooner revealed it was only a matter of time before the popular no-frills carriers set up major operations in Manchester.
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The hallway of Van Beveren's house is filled with colourful tops, dresses and bathing suits with strategically placed frills, bold prints or appliqués.
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Think luxe fabrics like velvet and brocade teamed with sumptuous bows and frills.
The Sun
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She managed to build up a collection of cream dresses and pink frilly dresses to fit the bridesmaids.
Times, Sunday Times
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One and all, we got horribly infested with leeches, having a frill of them round our necks like astrachan collars, and our hands covered with them, when we came out.
Travels in West Africa
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Some may consider them unnecessary frills, but when you meet the users it becomes obvious why these things matter.
Times, Sunday Times
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They wear long black cloaks or mantles, edged with a frill of the same material, and on their heads a kind of bandeau or under-cap, turned up at the ears, surmounted by
Brittany & Its Byways
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Its long postcranial frill not only serves as a display of aggression, but also protects the sensitive neck area from attacks.
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What if it turns out that you look really hot in frills?
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A quaint little figure, Lamb comes before our vision, in costume uncontemporary and as queer as himself, consisting of a suit of black cloth (they both affected dark colors), rusty silk stockings shown from the knees, thick shoes a mile too large, shirt with a wide, ill-plaited frill, and tiny white neckcloth tied in a minute bow.
Stories of Authors, British and American
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The door was opened by an old woman with caked on make-up and a frilly peignoir.
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Yupz – fibe Cheezeburgers pilawtud bai YNGs flai obur inz foarmayshun – izz teh frilling adn teh aww-inspyreng!
Haf id yore wai! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The Shaggy Man found his bed = soft and luxurious, so he slipped off his shaggy clothes, carefully = arranging them on a chair so that not one frill or furbelow was out of = place, put on the pajamas which Conjo had also provided for him, and = slipped into bed.
The Shaggy Man of Oz
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The red ruffle detail dress is flirty and fun with frills falling from the hem and shoulder for a ravishing party look.
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Undaunted, Channel 4 is persisting with the idea that you can conjure up magical profits from the frilly sleeves of cyberspace.
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However, mixed with softer more feminine elements, such as tiered cotton skirts and frilled shirts, this look is extremely wearable.
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I've known moms to be phobic of anything with an appliqué, certain colors, non-natural fibers, or frilly headbands.
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There wasn't much fru fru or frillies going on in my house, but lots of sports, outdoor adventures, and competition.
"If 'brain sex' sounds like gender stereotyping, Dr. Moir says there is a twist: Brain sex doesn't always match biological sex."
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Mish was allowed to wear a frilly apron as a concession.
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So ceratopsian frills may also have functioned as heat radiators, or signaling devices, or to attract mates, in addition to whatever protective function they may or may not have had.
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This is a film with fine acting, camera work free of frills and a plot that will keep you guessing.
