Crossword-Solution: FRILL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Frill | v. i. | To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills. |
| Frill | v. i. | To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film. |
| Frill | v. t. | To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap. |
| Frill | v. i. | A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold. |
| Frill | v. i. | A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal. |
| Frill | v. i. | A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals. |
| Frill | v. i. | A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells. |
| Frill | v. i. | A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with FRILL (5)
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.
After all, actually fixing the bugs would siphon off the resources needed to implement the next user-interface frill on marketing's wish list --- and besides, if they started fixing security bugs customers might begin to *expect* it and imagine that their warranties of merchantability gave them some sort of *right* to a system with fewer holes in it than a shotgunned Swiss cheese, and *then* where would we be? Historical note: There are conflicting stories about the origin of this term.
Then, to touch that delicate Elizabethan frill which wound itself so daintily about Edith’s neck--what inconceivable rapture! But it was quite impossible.
Simple, inexpensive days, when people dined at three (looking on the newly introduced six o’clock dinners as an English innovation and modern “frill”), and “high-teaed” together dyspeptically off “sally lunns” and “preserves,” washed down by coffee and chocolate, which it was the toilsome duty of a hostess to dispense from a silver-laden tray; days when “rockaways” drawn by lean, long-tailed horses and driven by mustached darkies were, if not the rule, far from being an exception.
Just remember that I knew you when the frill of your panties showed below your skirt.” “Clarence Heyl!” But he was leaning past her, and pointing out of the window.
Quotes with FRILL (3)
Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.
Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the central thing, the way you understood yourself.
Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 67 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).