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frill

1. a ruff of hair or feathers around the neck of a dog or bird or a fold of skin around the neck of a reptile or amphibian
2. a variety of domestic fancy pigeon having a ruff of curled feathers on the chest and crop
3. Photog a wrinkling or loosening of the emulsion at the edges of a negative or print
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But one can dream just as well in them as in lovely trailing ones, with frills around the neck, that's one consolation."
Now looky here; you stop that putting on frills. I won't have it.
I bet I'll take some o' these frills out o' you before I'm done with you.
She was running running running up the hill--and where was her white frilled cap?
Rachel Lynde sent several, in which good material and honest stitches took the place of embroidery and frills. Anne herself made many, desecrated by no touch of machinery, spending over them the happiest hours of the happy winter.
condition," Saxon answered, as she frilled a lace ruffle with a hot fluting-iron.
(on the Christmas cards), with their curly hair and natty hats, their well-shaped legs incased in smalls, their dainty Hessian boots, their ruffling frills, their canes and dangling seals.
(and the dirge of the elaborate black cap) from the day when she called witchcraft to her aid and made it out of snow-flakes, and the dear worn hands that washed it tenderly in a basin, and the starching of it, and the finger-iron for its exquisite frills that looked like curls of sugar, and the sweet bands with which it tied beneath the chin!
It is a very noticeable thing that, in fairy families, the youngest is always chief person, and usually becomes a prince or princess; and children remember this, and think it must be so among humans also, and that is why they are often made uneasy when they come upon their mother furtively putting new frills on the basinette.
It is a very noticeable thing that, in fairy families, the youngest is always chief person, and usually becomes a prince or princess, and children remember this, and think it must be so among humans also, and that is why they are often made uneasy when they come upon their mother furtively putting new frills on the basinette.
I wanted to cross the footlights and help the slim-waisted Armand in the frilled shirt to convince her that there was still loyalty and devotion in the world.
"Is that the dress you're going to wear tonight?" asked Gilbert, looking down at the fluffs and frills.
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