frill
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5.4
- noun
- /frɪl/
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- The dress was enhanced with a delicate frill around the hem, adding a stylish touch.
- art as a frill
These are communal, socially determined access, not frills for the powerful and the privileged.
- These are communal, socially determined access, not frills for the powerful and the privileged.
- There's no extra, like, frills over anything.
- The idea is the more you produce, the less they cost per unit or you can add frills and things on for the same cost.
- I think that's true that Jimmy at kind of a low price for a no frills SUV buyer.
- Regardless of all that though, in my humble opinion, this is a great value, no frills keyboard that most people will feel great purchasing.
- OK, they look real basic, no frills, but the sprayer works wonderfully well for a consistent, fine even mist every time.
- There's frills on frills on frills and it's gold bars plated in gold for your country and stuff like that.
Examples
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To call art a frill in education, to consider it frivolous, is to offer Socrates another glass of hemlock.
Academic text (1996) -
These are communal, socially determined access, not frills for the powerful and the privileged.
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Most administrators still see the arts as a frill or, at best, something that needs to be justified as contributing to success in academic subjects.
Academic text (1998) -
Regardless of all that though, in my humble opinion, this is a great value, no frills keyboard that most people will feel great purchasing.
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It can get the job done without the frills.
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Fish cakes, for instance, were pink, and pink was a come-on; it was a frill; it had no substance.
Fiction book (1999) -
The cost savings come partly from cutting out what the company regards as frills.
Academic text (2003) -
Dime store frills abounded in the kitchen, the room Anna hated in the house.
Fiction book (1994) -
Many generalists and administrators view the arts as frills or as an elitist set of codified elements and vocabularies.
Academic text (1996) -
Ripples and frills, curbs and folds would lend the illusion of femininity.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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Small decorative things that are fancy and not useful
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A small showy ornament that is cheap and has little value
Decorative frills on clothes like lace and ribbons
A decorative edge of small pressed folds on fabric or paper
A showy decoration that is not needed and looks too fancy
Small decorative things that have little value
Small decorative things that have little value
Cheap fancy items that look attractive but have little value
Cheap objects that look nice but have little value
Antonyms
How Decorative
Surface Forms
Etymology
Frill also came to mean any extra decoration that is not needed, like a showy ruffle added just for looks. So when we say something has 'no frills' we mean it is simple and without unnecessary decoration.