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Word entry · 5 letters

frill

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"Showy extra"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /fɹɪl/Part of speech nounSorted fillrStarts with FEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. ornamental objects of no great value

Word origin

From Old French friller.

Used in a sentence

  • His face had fallen in, and was unshorn; his frill and neckcloth hung limp under his bagging waistcoat.
  • 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.

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