frilly
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It is all preparation of frilly dresses, cakes, deviled eggs, and the anticipation of proper dancing and other carefully prescribed and restrained social interactions between the sexes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Chloe's ethereal runway featured floral bustiers and elegantly ruched tops and dresses, whilst Moschino's models wore ruched, frilly two-pieces in clashing colours.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
A woman with tears in her eyes showed me the frilly pink pussyhat she originally acquired in 2017.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2025
One of the most multifaceted ingredients, it's a multi-layered bulb around a dense core with sprouting stalks and frilly fronds.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2025
They liked to dress Trina and me in matching frilly dresses and hats—hers were usually white and mine were pink.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Anderson is played by Lily James, best known for appearing in rather frillier period costume as an English aristocrat's daughter in Downton Abbey.
From Reuters ● Jan. 31, 2022
The general tendency was toward texture — there’s that word again — as in a sporty mesh inserted into a knitted sweater, with a frillier skirt.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2014
Along with feeding Actress Walker her lines, Margaret Phillips plays the other wife in the frillier style of high comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, although interest in the frillier postmodern forms is waning, many architects and designers are taking a further leap in the same direction.
From Time Magazine Archive
The frilliest forms are in-your-face flamboyant, and even the more restrained varieties are irresistibly big and eye-catching.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2016
Her pakora-fried chicken in the lightest, frilliest dosa pancake, perked up with homemade chutneys and spiked by "gunpowder" spice mixes, is officially one of the most delicious things I've tasted, ever.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2014
So I read them the gayest, frilliest little stories I can find, that are really nice, and they adore it.
From The Merryweathers by Julia Ward Richards
Then she selected the frilliest of Maggie's blouses, which had dried while she talked, and spread it on the ironing table to sprinkle again.
From The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton
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