Frilly

Word FRILLY
Character 6
Hyphenation frilly
Pronunciations /ˈfɹɪli/

Definitions and meanings of "Frilly"

What do we mean by frilly?

Having frills; frilled.

Over-elaborate or showy in character or appearance.

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The word "frilly" in example sentences

The show's sexy but cheesy costumes run towards sequins, ruffled men's shirts unbuttoned to the navel, and girls in short, frilly skirts and skimpy bikini tops. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Simply stated, your average maid cafe appears normal from the outside, yet customers are greeted by subservient young women dressed in frilly French maid outfits. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I had always thought that I would not encourage any daughter of mine in frilly excesses. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yep, looks like I am a Bad Bad Man when it comes to vampire goth softcore gay porn for girls who wanna see blokes in frilly shirts pouting at each other without ever actually properly getting it on. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

We may invoke from their graves, as often as we wish, the characters of Molière and Holberg, to see nothing but a procession of figures in frilly costumes and wigs who, with affected and grotesque gestures, fulfill their mission. ❋ Unknown (1903)

With boys there are fighting games, and as you said the ones for girls are "frilly". ❋ Jennica (2010)

These are, though, kind of frilly, and not awfully in tune with the Shaker spirit. ❋ Lindy (2006)

He was dressed in a blue velvet dinner jacket and the kind of frilly lacy white shirt English noblemen had worn during past eras. ❋ Lisa, Leonore (1982)

But there was nothing frivolous in the array, nothing at all light in color, save perhaps the underclothes and the shirtwaists; there was not one purely decorative or "frilly" garment such as the heart of girlhood loves. ❋ Francis Barton Fox (N/A)

You must have known Cruthers -- he was always saying that kind of frilly things to the boys. ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)

Those fluted edges are kind of frilly and cute, now that I think about it. ❋ Ree (2010)

Why - you may ask - is that "frilly" stuff like history and events important? ❋ Unknown (2009)

After a lingerie shoot in which she wears the kind of frilly see-through undies that got Sid James hot and bothered in the 1970s, Meghna gets her breakthrough when India's top model, the coked-up Shonali (Kangana Ranaut), gets dropped as the face of Panache. ❋ Nirpal Dhaliwal (2008)

Verdine White, sporting a frilly, shiny cowboy outfit and a vintage processed hairdo that's as anachronistic, and probably as flammable, as the Ford Pinto, appeared to be having as big a kick as anybody during a choreographed line dance for 1975's "Sing a Song." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Emma Watson picked a frilly Valentino and Helena Bonham Carter didn't look too catastrophic in black. ❋ Hilary Moss (2011)

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