frill

Frills on the dresses of flamenco dancers.

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • 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).

Origin

  • Of Unknown.
  • From Old French friller.

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