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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
frilly
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a frilly nightgown
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Above us, a massive chandelier in sugar-doll pink cascades down in frilly waves.
▪ But in austere, plain-Jane face it seems unrelated to the next-door cousin that flies high in lacy, frilly stonework.
▪ Clean bright bubbles form a frilly ruff around my neck.
▪ Clive wanted to see the manager with a broken nose, blood on his dicky bow and frilly shirt front.
▪ I've always wanted to be a frilly bloomer!
▪ The frilly curtains on the wall?
▪ They reacted against factory-produced Victorian furniture with its frilly fretwork, clawed feet and laminated woods.
▪ Women in white boots, short shorts and frilly cowgirl outfits kicked up their heels on it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
frilly

frilly \frilly\ adj. Having decorative ruffles or frills.

Syn: frilled, ruffled.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
frilly

1843, from frill + -y (2). Related: Frilliness.

Wiktionary
frilly

a. Having frills; frilled.

WordNet
frilly

adj. having decorative ruffles or frills [syn: frilled, ruffled]

Usage examples of "frilly".

The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duckbilled monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.

He wanted to use his fists on the prissily dressed man and see that fine, aristocratic nose flatten and splatter blood over the frilly satin shirt.

He was almost glad the house was so dark because he felt ridiculous: sitting here in his blacked-out raid wear, Kevlar vest, and bloused BDU pants, surrounded by lace antimacassars, crochet work, and frilly doilies.

Peter had not been to a circus since he was five years old, and he remembered only a confusion of bright colors, large cages with bored-looking animals, a huge woman in a frilly dress, and a clown in a spotlight with a bouquet of flowers.

According to gossip, Etta considered the frilly bloomers useless and burned them immediately.

Clad only in her frilly white camisole and slip, she started to protest.

The nearby floor lamp as well as the frilly lights on the dressing table illuminated her wonderfully, and she had her dozens of cameos out before her on the marble and her bone-handled magnifying glass in her right hand.

But every now and then there'd be an item in the Coloroto section of the Sunday paper, with all the Pepto-Bismol Girls in their frilly pink dresses and the Pepto-Bismol Boys in their trim pink suits.

When he let me go I just lay there on the frilly yellow bed cover, and he made a soft sound of amusement and smoothed my tangled hair back.

Several of the boys wore bellbottom trousers, very frilly shirts, and all had long hair.

Women in frilly caps cooked in big pots hung over fireplaces, and men in coonskin caps and gunnysack shirts shot rabbits with muskets.

The SAP fields of Kansas always gave Charlotte the impression of looking at a gigantic piece of frilly and filthy corrugated cardboard.

Werner was wearing a cream-coloured, slubbed-silk jacket, black pants and frilly evening shirt with a big black bow tie.

Above their ferocious, horny-skinned snouts waved a long appendage like a fish line with a colored, frilly bait.

The current fashions strike Matt as an odd jumble of several different period styles, into which the jeans and loose shirjacks that he and Volkov are wearing will fit as workingmen's clothes, but in the less utilitarian outfits on display he can see an evolution toward showiness and elaboration since he was last here: Trousers and skirts are narrower, jackets shorter, shirts and blouses frillier, hats and heels taller.