frislet

plural frislets

1. A kind of small ruffle.

   Wimples, colfs, cascanets, carkenels, fusles, frislets, palisadoes, who cares about them any more?

   1907 March 2, “Old Clo'”, in Living Age Company (Seventh; XXXIV), volume CCLII, number 3269, page 574

   4 more examples

   In this medley of things we shall see purles, falles, […] parlets, frislets, fillets, […] and whalebone wheels—Eve!

   1907, Dion Clayton Calthrop, English Costume Painted and Described by Dion Clayton Calthrop, Adam and Charles Black, page 340

   For it is shame enough to 've thought to make A frislet of their own shake like the locks Of cloud-hared Zeus.

   1912, Fielding Burke, The mortal gods: and other plays, Scribner's, page 219

   such stir with sticks and combs […] partlets, frislets, bandlets, […] and so many lets, that yet she is scarce drest to the girdle.

   1968, Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (17th viscount), quoting Thomas Tomkis, edited by Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (17th viscount), Lingua, or the Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority, 1st edition, 1607, quoted in Costume in England: History, Singing Tree Press, pages 294–295

   Unfamiliar words abound, including many intriguing professional roles --ippers, woadmongers, cordwainers--and objects--perukes, frislets (small ruffles) and spangles.

   2012 May 11, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, “Woadmongers and frislets.”, in TLS. Times Literary Supplement, number 5693, London, England: NI Syndication Limited, page 21