How To Use Frilled In A Sentence
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He spent nothing on himself or on luxuries, and cared little about his appearance, always wearing a dated, crumpled, violet suit, frilled cuffs and a three cornered hat.
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You see, when Queen Victoria was a little girl, dolls wore queer frocks and long pantalets and boy dolls wore funny frilled trousers and coats which it would almost make you laugh to look at.
The RACKETTY-PACKETTY House
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For the first time, teacher Kevin Stinnette thought, his students could do hands-on lessons with cold-water species such as frilled anemones and Acadia hermit crabs.
Delusional Duck
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From one end of the town to the other clotheslines, dining-room chairs, porch rockers and upstairs bedrooms are overflowing with silk foulards, frilled dimities, beribboned and belaced organdies, not to mention the billows of dotted swiss and muslin.
Green Valley
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She was wearing the navy blue skirt and one of the white blouses, with a frilled front.
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If I was a poule, where were my cigarette holder, my cherry red lipstick, my frilled umbrella?
SKORPION'S DEATH
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She took a card that had a painting of frilled cream-coloured tulips against a pale blue ground on the front.
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Neon ooze blotched the frilled fabric and streaked her hair, and blood stained the edges of cuts in the material, though the cuts in the underlying flesh had long since closed.
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The cut of the "clawhammer" dress-coat does not differ from that of to-day, but it was often of blue cloth with brass buttons; shirts were frilled, and waistcoats of gold-sprigged
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
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It was always too dark, or windy, it was too late to call or she would have grown blooms enough to rasp against the drainpipe, she could have frilled the sills with fringe.
Painted Garden
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She took a card that had a painting of frilled cream-coloured tulips against a pale blue ground on the front.
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The dressing-table had a frilled flounce; and lying on it was a hand mirror ready to be picked up.
THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
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The women, with hair pulled into chignons, wore bright costumes resembling frilled bathing suits from that era.
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Her hands were crossed motionless in her lap, the frilled cuffs of her soft white blouse spread out on the lap of her navy pleated skirt.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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The petals may be overlapped, recurved, frilled, crinkled or ruffled.
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She sat perfectly still, without even a rustle of her frilled petticoats.
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Semidouble wine frilled pansy. Variegated dark green, pink and tan , plain, heart - shaped , pointed. Large.
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We allude to the lizard with a frill round its neck, which has been universally likened to that worn by Queen Elizabeth: it is called the frilled agama.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
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The dressing-table had a frilled flounce; and lying on it was a hand mirror ready to be picked up.
THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
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They watched the Dynmouth Hards performing at the rifle range, their black-frilled girls loitering beside them, seeming bored.
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Frilled ones can even be used to decorate a serving platter.
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Staff Nurses were goddesses and we had started to covet these accoutrements on day one, frilled cuffs, petersham belt, badges and a strings cap.
65 entries from December 2006
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Karolyi removes his scuffed shoes, shabby suit, black bow tie, and frilled shirt and hangs them carefully over rusting bedrails.
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A 'bonne' coiffed with ribbon shepherded two little girls with pig-tails and frilled drawers.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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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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To my delight, it really is frilled and ruffled.
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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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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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She wore a conservative blouse of dark cream chiffon, with a high, frilled collar and ruffles up the front.
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The petals may be overlapped, recurved, frilled, crinkled or ruffled.
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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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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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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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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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There was a dress I liked - yes - there it was, an old rose-coloured one with a frilled skirt.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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However, mixed with softer more feminine elements, such as tiered cotton skirts and frilled shirts, this look is extremely wearable.
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The jewels were laid away in their velvet cases -- the ribbons folded and laid aside -- the rich robe placed in the armoire, and the frilled and embroidered _robe de nuit_ placed upon her, and fastened with its gold buttons about her neck and wrists, with no more motion on the part of that passive figure, than if it had been a doll in the hands of a child.
The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans
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The weather did not deter her from wearing a fashionable pair of high-heeled black suede frilled boots.
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The dressing-table had a frilled flounce; and lying on it was a hand mirror ready to be picked up.
THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND