frill

It promised that the scorched frill at the bottom of a skillet was not failure, but the start of a sauce.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025

Measuring about five metres long and weighing two tonnes, the four-legged beasts had large heads, adorned with a distinctive bony frill and three horns.

From BBC ● May 19, 2025

The subject doesn’t require a lot of rhetorical frill to have its effect.

From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2024

The ceratopsids vary mostly in their frill patterns and not so much in feeding adaptations, he says: “Their jaws and teeth are more or less built the same way.”

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 20, 2024

She got a frill scholarship to the University of Maryland to run and did really well her freshman year, winning her first race a few days before she died.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds

Fliers on Frontier don’t currently have any internet access at all—a relic of the airline’s ultradiscount business model, which had traditionally focused more on offering cheap fares than in-flight frills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

"We'll celebrate at home, modestly, with no frills," she said.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

Designers featured frills, fabric layers and ruching in a variety of colours and styles, meaning you could easily re-fashion your own items to reflect the mismatched clothes on display here.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

There are not so many show-biz people now, not as many frills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

Noelle walks toward the TV from down the hall, wearing a long black skirt and a white top with little frills around the shoulders, locking eyes with me.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini