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frilly

adjective as in chichi

adjective as in lacy

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Perhaps you’ll notice a cluster of frilly pink shelves on a log or a striking purple mushroom that’s a doppelgänger for underwater coral.

While they might not be as fancy and frilly as their more expensive counterparts, there are several options that are stable, easy to use, and offer a great user experience.

Imagine putting some poor young actress in the position of having to live up to Rita Moreno twirling her frilly skirt through “America” as Anita!

From Vox

Though not overly elaborate or frilly, a really good loaf is just as elegant and impressive as any round, stacked masterpiece.

From Eater

A 50-year-old mother of six, she urged like-minded women to wear their “most frilly, feminine dress” and bring their husband a “delicious breakfast with a smile in bed” that day.

From Time

New Orleanians loved the frilly, pale lavender flowers and gradually planted them as decorations around the city in garden ponds.

The heaps of gifted and hand-me-down pink frilly clothes and accessories grew far faster than we were able to sort and store them.

Next out was Madeline, a one-and-a-half year old Sphinx in a frilly pink ballerina outfit.

Flourishes of ruffles spread out from beneath the hemline, like a frilly skirt.

What could have been a frilly flop was given weight by DiCaprio and Mulligan, and Maguire, too.

To her new-fangled dress, frilly about the hips and tight below the knees, June took a sudden liking—a charming colour, flax-blue.

When she was asleep, he said, he would hop on to the frilly things of her night-gown and peck at her mouth.

Lily looked like nothing but a very frilly, sweet, white flower.

She came down soon, wearing a loose, frilly, wrapperlike garment which hid her figure.

From it emerged Mildred and Nan in all the glory of fresh and frilly lawns and the latest in hats from a Louisville milliner.

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On this page you'll find 100 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to frilly, such as: flamboyant, swank, arty, grandiose, pompous, and pretentious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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