frilling

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noun

A frilled ornamentation on clothing.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of frill
nounfrilling (plural frillings)

plural frillings

  1. A frilled ornamentation on clothing.

    So she sat, corpselike, as we played at cards; the frillings and trimmings on her bridal dress, looking like earthy paper.

    1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VIII, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 126
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