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frill

The correct spelling is frill.

How to pronounce frill

noun

IPA: /fɹɪl/

Say it like: Fri-ll

The correct spelling is frill. A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.

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Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
  2. 2.A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
  3. 3.A wrinkled edge to a film.
  4. 4.Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
  5. 5.The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.

verb

  1. 1.To make into a frill.
  2. 2.To become wrinkled.
  3. 3.To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
  4. 4.To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).
  5. 5.To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).

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