frill

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a narrow strip of gathered or pleated fabric used as a decorative edge

   A white lace frill edged the collar of the dress.

2. 2
   noun

   a projecting border of feathers, hair, skin, or bone around an animal's neck or head

   The lizard raised its colorful neck frill when threatened.

3. 3
   noun

   an unnecessary decorative feature or luxury; often plural

   The basic plan provides reliable service without expensive frills.

4. 4
   noun

   a bony plate extending behind the skull of a ceratopsian dinosaur

   The fossil preserves most of the animal's broad skull frill.

Recorded in sixteenth-century English and probably related to Old French friller 'to shiver or tremble.' The link may be the rippling or trembling movement of a gathered edge, though the word's ultimate origin is uncertain.

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