frill
Example Sentences
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“The attitude was that this is a frill, just like art and music. Not essential.”
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
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
He started the truck and turned the air-conditioning on frill blast.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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