Usually means: Decorative edge or ornamental addition.
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  1. frill: Merriam-Webster
  2. frill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. frill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. frill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Frill, frill: Wordnik
  7. frill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. frill: Wiktionary
  9. frill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. frill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. frill: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Frill, frill: Dictionary.com
  13. frill: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. frill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Frill (fashion), Frill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Frill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. frill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. frill: Rhymezone
  19. frill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. frill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. frill: FreeDictionary.org
  22. frill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. frill: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. frill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Frill (fashion), frill: Legal dictionary

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  1. Frill (fashion), frill: Encyclopedia

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  2. frill: Medical dictionary

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  1. frill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Frill: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
noun:  (figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
noun:  (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
noun:  (figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
noun:  (zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
verb:  (transitive) To make into a frill.
verb:  (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
verb:  (transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, falconry) To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, falconry) To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).

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