frill

/fɹɪl/ · noun

Meaning

A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
A wrinkled edge to a film.
Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
To make into a frill.
To become wrinkled.
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).
To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).

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