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frilly

/fril-ee/US // ˈfrɪl i //

褶皱,褶皱的,褶边,褶边的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    frill·i·er, frill·i·est.

    • : covered with or marked by frills: Some of the more elaborate dress shirts have frilly fronts.
    • : frivolous; inconsequential: After a day of intense concentration and serious business, they feel like doing something frilly and amusing.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inopulent

Examples

  • Though not overly elaborate or frilly, a really good loaf is just as elegant and impressive as any round, stacked masterpiece.

  • A 50-year-old mother of six, she urged like-minded women to wear their “most frilly, feminine dress” and bring their husband a “delicious breakfast with a smile in bed” that day.

  • New Orleanians loved the frilly, pale lavender flowers and gradually planted them as decorations around the city in garden ponds.

  • The heaps of gifted and hand-me-down pink frilly clothes and accessories grew far faster than we were able to sort and store them.

  • Next out was Madeline, a one-and-a-half year old Sphinx in a frilly pink ballerina outfit.

  • Flourishes of ruffles spread out from beneath the hemline, like a frilly skirt.

  • What could have been a frilly flop was given weight by DiCaprio and Mulligan, and Maguire, too.

  • To her new-fangled dress, frilly about the hips and tight below the knees, June took a sudden liking—a charming colour, flax-blue.

  • When she was asleep, he said, he would hop on to the frilly things of her night-gown and peck at her mouth.

  • Lily looked like nothing but a very frilly, sweet, white flower.

  • She came down soon, wearing a loose, frilly, wrapperlike garment which hid her figure.

  • From it emerged Mildred and Nan in all the glory of fresh and frilly lawns and the latest in hats from a Louisville milliner.