frilly
Example Sentences
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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
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
I’m not talking about tweens, who have long been a core repeat audience, but adults decked in frilly pink or ominous green, depending on whether they were Team Glinda or Team Elphaba.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024
Light filtered down through the water to the bed where the frilly pearl oysters lay fastened to the rub- bly bottom, a bottom strewn with shells of broken, opened oysters.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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