How To Use Frilly In A Sentence
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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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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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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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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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Relatively dressed down, in frilly blouse and trousers, she certainly looked the part.
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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“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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What has a frilly blouse got to do with world domination?
Times, Sunday Times
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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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I can't be bothered with putting a mortgage on my house just to buy a frilly ascot!
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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 frilly flowers have a strong scent and long stems.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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She landed back to find a suitcase containing her frilly smalls was missing.
The Sun
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This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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It is very important to note that she was wearing a white frilly dress that was still in perfect condition.
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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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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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The bifoliate species have mostly smaller flowers, some with waxy petals and sepals and less frilly lips.
Article Source
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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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Women borrowed jackets, ties, hats and other styles from menswear to construct less frilly and ornamental ensembles.
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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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The door was opened by an old woman with caked on make-up and a frilly peignoir.
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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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I've known moms to be phobic of anything with an appliqué, certain colors, non-natural fibers, or frilly headbands.
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Mish was allowed to wear a frilly apron as a concession.
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The frilly flowers have a strong scent and long stems.
Times, Sunday Times
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But in austere, plain-Jane face it seems unrelated to the next-door cousin that flies high in lacy, frilly stonework.
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Women in white boots, short shorts and frilly cowgirl outfits kicked up their heels on it.
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In this showcase of the well known (but little understood) Latin dance form, we learn that flamenco is not just about castanets, señoritas in frilly gowns and fancy footwork.
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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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The young woman dried her hands on a frilly apron.
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The wiggly, fuzzy boas were frilly and girlish but also spermlike.
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There were also dense slabs of chocolate fondant, and an apple croustade with a light, frilly crust that melted to butter in your mouth.
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It may have been the last - if not the only - time the Queen carried a frilly parasol on a state occasion.
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The beds had cast iron bedsteads and flowery covers with frilly edges.
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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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Amy turns around in her pastel pink frilly-laced top, patterned with small flowers.
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Colorful frilly skirts or plaid pants generally gave way to wild sandals or roller skates.
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Anyone with a slight exhibitionist streak can don a frilly nightcap and stay on this iron bed in full view of the neighbours, with a chair, candle and a "door to nowhere" for comfort.
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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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It sounded like a book that would teach me how to be a proper lady, complete with frilly lace, curtsying and a lot of time spent being meek.
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For what the bright eyed youth had said was true, her skirts were indeed neatly tucked into the back of her bloomers, revealing acres of leg and frilly pantaloons to all!
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From left to right: frilly green lettuce, butter lettuce, tucked in front tatsoi, Pink Beauty radishes with ample greens, spicy greens mix with lots of mizuna, 3 big bunches of spinach, peppermint, arugula, asparagus, and spring onions
Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: Tantre farm share, week 2
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The good overwhelms all of course, as there are still wonderful tulips to enjoy, the new blooms of plants such as fothergilla are out with frilly white fringetree blossoms soon to come, and the soft foliage of copper beeches are emerging with the downy hairs on the edges of leaves glistening in the sun.
Undefined
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Layer your frilly dress over a jumper for a winter take on the trend.
The Sun
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While I will put my boys in girls' clothes, I do have standards: I avoid ribbons, lace, frilly ruffles, little pink flowers, and sequins.
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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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Get ye behind me, you frilly old frocks!
Times, Sunday Times
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With his frilly, fancy clothes and fastidious manner, Cantus always seemed like he belonged more at a poetry recital than in battle.
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Gone are the inane card tricks, the cheesy smiles and the frilly assistants.
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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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People surround their houses with frilly plants and especially with lawns - an astonishingly costly national extravagance.
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And they are busy planning as soon-to-be-married couples would be, having little tiffs over the usual stuff, bonding over the usual stuff, picking out trousseaux, like, again, any couple that is soon to be married -- lots of white, sexy, frilly lingerie pieces.
CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2003
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Remaining in bloomers and the frilly corset, I darted from the cover.
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His collars were frilly lace, his hair wavy and long.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Spent the day writing and the afternoon standing in my overgrown back garden wearing a frilly white skirt and having shots taken of my muff to illustrate a piece about pubes in the first issue of Scarlet.
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With its high button-up neck and frilly ruffle details, it's both flattering and comfortable.
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They were given pink dresses with low necks and frilly arms and hems.
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Even when I was six years old, I was a page boy at a wedding, and the outfit I wanted to wear was knickerbockers, knee-length socks, frilly shirt, and ballet shoes.
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So I traded in my closetful of frilly skirts and pointy-toe shoes for blue jeans and mucky barnyard boots.
Susie Middleton: Fast, Fresh & Green Hits Home with Easy, Delicious Vegetable Recipes
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Colorful frilly skirts or plaid pants generally gave way to wild sandals or roller skates.
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There were also dense slabs of chocolate fondant, and an apple croustade with a light, frilly crust that melted to butter in your mouth.
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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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As hard as she tried, Kayin couldn't picture him anywhere that wasn't frilly, rich, and perfect.
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This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wear with a frilly white shirt for a nod to the new romantic era.
The Sun
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The designers decided that the new trend was ‘High Femininity’: girly, pretty, flouncy and frilly clothes.
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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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It was a lacy, pink, frilly room complete with canopy bed and a window seat.
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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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This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges.
Times, Sunday Times
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She tucked the shirt into the frilly underskirt, worn under the wine colored flounced gypsy skirt.
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The other kids could tease me till I cried, but as far as I was concerned, frilly sleeping apparel was fair game on a canoe trip.
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But imagine that in the background, as this wee slip of a lass is performing, this dude in leather trousers and lounge-singer frilly shirt is wandering about, looking louche and lusty.
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Men also wear frilly goatskin bands on their arms and legs.
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However, the salad 'nicoise' I remember best was at an expensive restaurant in South Yarra during our early courting days; a time when swanky eating places go with the territory along with arthouse movies, wasting entire mornings or afternoons drinking caffe lattes and eating carrot cake in cafes and staying at B&Bs with frilly curtains, gingham tablecloths and hosts who just about sit in your lap at breakfast.
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Dolce & Gabbana Another literal interpretation of the apron from the D & G from its Spring/Summer collection is frilly and floral.
Haute Housewife
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Another old stalwart, chunky trusses of frilly, purple trumpets with crimson black markings inside.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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An earthy casserole of pumpkin and courgette, frilly girolle mushrooms, chestnuts and pillowy clouds of curd was so delightfully autumnal that it seemed entirely fitting when the candle flame ignited my napkin, producing a small bonfire on the table.
Evening Standard - Home
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On the other hand, she's different, wearing a black, modest coat and remaining silent, whereas the other girl wore pale, frilly clothes and giggled.
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Shrugging, he picked up one of the frilly tuxedo shirts and held it up to himself.
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He dresses her in frilly clothes and surrounds her with stuffed animals and dolls.
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This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges.
Times, Sunday Times
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The beds had cast iron bedsteads and flowery covers with frilly edges.
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Waitresses dress in costumes which recall the early days of London's first tearooms, when white frilly aprons were worn over black dresses, and white caps covered their hair.
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This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such new patterns or ornaments could be used both externally and internally in contemporary designs and break the slavish adherence to bare steel or frilly 19th century mimicry.
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Well, I don't like my underwear to be lacy or frilly so I'm much more likely to buy Hanro cottons or stretch net from Prada and Calvin Klein than anything by La Perla.
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All through elementary school she bought me frilly, lacy dresses and huge hair bows.
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She tucked the shirt into the frilly underskirt, worn under the wine colored flounced gypsy skirt.
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The frilly flowers are heavily fragrant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scout herself is a bit of a tomboy and would much rather play outside in overalls than wear frilly dresses, much to her aunt's dismay.
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It's too fancy, too frilly, too difficult to read.
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Leaf shapes can be large and broader than chard, or nearly as frilly as parsley.
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Then I donned my pearls and frilly apron and concocted a delectable dinner of Mexican bread, mini-meat loaves and fresh green beans.
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Those frilly, lacy hearts of different shades of red, white and pink just didn't do it for me.
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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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Make-up, frilly shirts and fedora hats became the antiestablishment uniform.
The Sun
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Her mother had decorated the room mostly in white with loads of frilly things in it, and she hated it, but it was one of the only places to go where they could be alone.
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Rose had on a white T-shirt and white pants with frilly bell-bottoms, and she was carrying a toy car.
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While some varieties of this frilly-leafed plant play well with others, I made the mistake of planting artemisia 'Oriental Limelight.'
Garden Thugs
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The slippers are gray-green cable-knit and the marabou is a frilly hot pink.
The Kitchen Daughter
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It seems simply to entail prancing about, albeit slowly and gracefully, whilst dressed in expensive, frilly clothing.
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The frilly flowers have a strong scent and long stems.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Traditional women's clothes include a sheer, low-cut, frilly white blouse and a flowered, full cotton skirt.
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The bottom half was covered with shiny, white, frilly fabric.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soft, frilly, romantic blouses look fantastic with masculine tailoring.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Lake Iseo has a certain unrestrained elegance too, without the frilly excesses of Stresa or Sirmione.
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Forget the frilly frock and go for this sleek take on party wear.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was wearing a pink leotard and this frilly pink tutu.
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Was I supposed to find something appropriately frilly and covered in sequins, or should I wear something demure and modest?
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Colorful frilly skirts or plaid pants generally gave way to wild sandals or roller skates.
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His performance in that film shows up the Randall version for what it really was - a prissy, frilly, silly version of a far more interesting and comic character.
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There are also playful parrot tulips with ruffled flower edges, frilly fringed tulips and lily-flowered tulips with pointed petals.
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Gladioli timesThe gladioli has a tendency towards the frilly and the froufrou, but lots are delicate and there is still time to plant them for late summer spires of colour.
In the garden this week: Net fruit bushes, plus gladioli times
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Women bunged their brassieres on the brazier as a symbolic gesture - they weren't going to be reined in anymore by men or by a bit of frilly elastic.
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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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I looked up and noticed a large open window and from the dark interior two frilly beribboned sleeves emerged; two gnarled hands grabbed the adjacent shutters and slammed them shut.
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The little girls wore frilly pastel-colored dresses and white patent leather shoes with matching pocketbooks.
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There were also dense slabs of chocolate fondant, and an apple croustade with a light, frilly crust that melted to butter in your mouth.
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Was I supposed to find something appropriately frilly and covered in sequins, or should I wear something demure and modest?
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Babies are, of course, far happier in a grubby jumpsuit covered in mud and drool than in a frilly dress festooned with ribbons.
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Those frilly, lacy hearts of different shades of red, white and pink just didn't do it for me.
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I love praline—perhaps not quite as much as chocolate, but I know from sampling Mr. Torres's other wares that he has the populist touch; while he's fully capable of concocting those frilly French desserts that make you feel like titled nobility when they hit your taste buds, he also knows that chocolate is an essential arrow in any self-respecting pasty chef's quiver.
Seeking Layers of Heaven
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The sheer amount of them created the illusion that the chamber walls were frilly like the skin of a reptile with disjointed scales.
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Straight off the express from the 1980s, they were sporting frilly shirts, velvet jackets and floppy hair in true new romantics style, but this band was no mere homage.
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All through elementary school she bought me frilly, lacy dresses and huge hair bows.
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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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Or walk past the border and you're in South Africa, as the sky-blue agapanthus nod their high frilly heads in the sun.
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Wearing a frilly white bikini top and barely there bottoms, she looked absolutely sensational.
The Sun
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I dressed in a short white crinoline dress over a frilly white slip.
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But the playful look gave way to long patchwork dresses, vests with frilly collars and cashmere cardigans which the designer said a girl might wear to impress her mother.
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When the Mass was over Gnat was capering around the narthex, showing off her happy frilly purple coat.
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Gladioli timesThe gladioli has a tendency towards the frilly and the froufrou, but lots are delicate and there is still time to plant them for late summer spires of colour.
In the garden this week: Net fruit bushes, plus gladioli times
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They were poor girls, but they were still girls; they wanted the frilly dresses and ruffly skirts and glorious hats that Jane had always taken for granted.
Uprising
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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.
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