frill

v. i.	1.	To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills. [imp. & p. p. frilled (frĭld); p. pr. & vb. n. frilling.]
	2.	(Photog.) To wrinkle; - said of the gelatin film.
v. t.	1.	To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
n.	1.	(Zool.) A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
	2.	A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
	3.	Something superfluous, such as an ornament, or an additional function on a device or in a system not essential to the basic operation. - Commonly used in the phrase no frills, used adjectively to indicate a fully functional but economical device or service; as, an economical no-frills airline.

Noun

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frill - a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim Synonyms: flounce, furbelow, ruffle

addition, adornment, amenity, beading, beauties, bedizenment, binding, bonus, bordering, bordure, bravery, chiffon, clinquant, colors, colors of rhetoric, crease, creasing, crimp, crisp, decoration, dog-ear, double, double over, doubling, duplication, duplication of effort, duplicature, edging, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, enfold, expletive, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, festoons, figure, figure of speech, filigree, filling, fillip, fimbria, fimbriation, fine writing, finery, flection, flexure, floridity, floridness, flounce, flourish, floweriness, flowers of speech, flute, fold, fold over, folderol, foofaraw, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, fringe, frippery, froufrou, furbelow, fuss, gaiety, galloon, gather, gaudery, gewgaw, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, hem, infold, interfold, jazz, lagniappe, lap over, lapel, lappet, list, lushness, luxuriance, luxury, motif, needlessness, ornament, ornamentation, ostentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, paste, payroll padding, pinchbeck, plait, plat, pleat, pleonasm, plica, plicate, plication, plicature, ply, premium, prolixity, purple patches, quill, redundance, redundancy, ruche, ruching, ruff, ruffle, selvage, showiness, skirting, something extra, stuffing, superaddition, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology, tinsel, trappings, trickery, trimming, trumpery, tuck, turn over, twill, twist, unnecessariness, valance, verbosity, welt, wrinkle

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