frills
/fɹɪlz/ · frills
noun
- A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim. She added frills of lace to the dress to give it a more romantic look.
- A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric. A thin frill of foam lined the edge of the pool, softening the hard concrete.
- A wrinkled edge to a film. The old movie reel showed a frill where the celluloid had been torn.
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Did you know? The phrase “no‑frills” emerged in the mid‑20th century to describe services stripped of unnecessary ornamentation, a nod to the word’s original sense of decorative excess.