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Rarefrill
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.A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
- 2.A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
- 3.A wrinkled edge to a film.
- 4.Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
- 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.To make into a frill.
- 2.To become wrinkled.
- 3.To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
- 4.To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).
- 5.To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).
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