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FRILLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does frilled mean?
• FRILLED (adjective)
The adjective FRILLED has 1 sense:
1. having decorative ruffles or frills
Familiarity information: FRILLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having decorative ruffles or frills
Synonyms:
Similar:
adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
Context examples
The 60 to 80 radiating pigmented ridges that form a frilled circle around the eye lens behind the iris.
(Ciliary Process, NCI Thesaurus)
And that night they worked till half-past ten, dipping "fancy starch"—all the frilled and airy, delicate wear of ladies.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He was very cleanly dressed, in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, and nankeen trousers; and his fine frilled shirt and cambric neckcloth looked unusually soft and white, reminding my strolling fancy (I call to mind) of the plumage on the breast of a swan.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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