frill
/fɹɪl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.31 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
noun
The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
Example Sentences
- "1777, Samuel Jackson Pratt (as Courtney Melmoth), Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence, London: G. Robinson and J. Bew, Volume 5, Chapter 114, p. 163, […] one of her husband Jeffery’s shirts (with frills to the bosom) […]"
- "His face had fallen in, and was unshorn; his frill and neckcloth hung limp under his bagging waistcoat."
- "Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas."
- "Nothing moved in sky, land, or sea, except a frill of milkwhite foam along the nearer angles of the shore, shreds of which licked the contiguous stones like tongues."
- "She had noticed yesterday that a few tiny corkscrew tendrils had come right through some cracks in the scullery ceiling and all the windows of the lean-to had a thick frill of ruffled green."
- "[T]he bright frills of the winter fungi on the blotched trunks of the trees;"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fɹɪl/
- British English: /fɹɪl/