| 单词 | frill |
| 释义 | frill (once / 3058 pages) 1n 2n 3n Use the noun frill when you talk about a decorative strip used as trim. You might have a frill along the bottom of your favorite skirt. The pleated trim or ruffle at the hem of a sweater or along the bottom of a sofa slipcover can be called a frill. You can also use the word in a more figurative way, to describe anything that's merely extra or for decoration: "The beginning of his speech was nothing but a frill," or "We need to work on our budget — first, let's cut out the frills, like getting our shoes shined and eating out every night." WORD FAMILYfrill: frills, frilly+/frilly: frillily USAGE EXAMPLESHe said he sells them anywhere from $8,000 to more than $60,000 depending on customers’ requests for extra features and frills. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) “Let’s talk about the extra frills in my contract.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 10, 2016) Travelers are in a tizzy over United Airlines’ new “Basic Economy” fares, which offer fewer frills at a lower price of the airline’s other tickets. Time(Dec 07, 2016) 1 1n a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim Syn|Hypo|Hyper flounce, furbelow, ruffle gauffer, goffer an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats jabota ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt pepluma flared ruffle attached to the waistline of a dress or jacket or blouse adornment a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness 2n ornamental objects of no great value 2Syn|Hyper falderol, folderal, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery decoration, ornament, ornamentation something used to beautify n an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal 3Syn|Hyper ruff external body part any body part visible externally n (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs Hyper plate any flat platelike body structure or part |
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