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Frills, ribbons, ruffles, and such
Answer for the clue "Frills, ribbons, ruffles, and such ", 8 letters:
froufrou
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Word definitions for froufrou in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Froufrou \Frou"frou`\ (fr[=oo]"fr[=oo]`), n. [F., of imitative origin.] A rustling, esp. the rustling of a woman's dress. showy or frilly ornamentation. --MW10
Usage examples of froufrou.
Taylor, too fussy and froufrou, she complained, although the very young salesgirl answered back that they were gala dresses, young and gala dresses.
When the froufrou of her skirts announced her approach, Lincoln rose and took his place near the mantel.
An encouraging froufrou rustled in a nearby clump of parallel, tasseled stems.
A simple dress, not too froufrou, but definitely white, which some considered the worst breach of etiquette.
Looking down the vast promontory of his nose he has beheld everything – the Cordilleras falling away into the Pacific, the history of the Diaspora done in vellum, shutters fluting the froufrou of the beach, the piano curving like a conch, corollas giving out diapasons of light, chameleons squirming under the book press, seraglios expiring in oceans of dust, music issuing like fire from the hidden chromosphere of pain, spore and madrepore fructifying the earth, navels vomiting their bright spawn of anguish… He is a bright sage, a dancing seer who, with a sweep of the brush, removes the ugly scaffold to which the body of man is chained by the incontrovertible facts of life.