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View synonyms for frilly

frilly

[ fril-ee ]

adjective

, frill·i·er, frill·i·est.
  1. covered with or marked by frills:

    Some of the more elaborate dress shirts have frilly fronts.

  2. frivolous; inconsequential:

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



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Other Words From

  • frilli·ness noun
  • un·frilly adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of frilly1

First recorded in 1835–45; frill + -y 1

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Example Sentences

New Orleanians loved the frilly, pale lavender flowers and gradually planted them as decorations around the city in garden ponds.

The heaps of gifted and hand-me-down pink frilly clothes and accessories grew far faster than we were able to sort and store them.

Next out was Madeline, a one-and-a-half year old Sphinx in a frilly pink ballerina outfit.

Flourishes of ruffles spread out from beneath the hemline, like a frilly skirt.

What could have been a frilly flop was given weight by DiCaprio and Mulligan, and Maguire, too.

To her new-fangled dress, frilly about the hips and tight below the knees, June took a sudden liking—a charming colour, flax-blue.

When she was asleep, he said, he would hop on to the frilly things of her night-gown and peck at her mouth.

Lily looked like nothing but a very frilly, sweet, white flower.

She came down soon, wearing a loose, frilly, wrapperlike garment which hid her figure.

From it emerged Mildred and Nan in all the glory of fresh and frilly lawns and the latest in hats from a Louisville milliner.

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