frilled, ppl. a.
(frɪld)
[f. frill n.1 or v.1 + -ed1 or -ed2.]
Having, wearing, or adorned with a frill, or something like a frill. Of a photographic plate: Raised in flutes at the edges. frilled lizard = frill-lizard. Hence ˈfrilledness.
| 1825 Ld. Cockburn Mem. i. (1856) 37 The polite ruffled and frilled gentlemen of the olden time. 1827 in Hone Everyday Bk. II. 190 A delicate frilled hand. 1863 Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. III. 87 The Frilled Lizard is a native of Australia. 1865 Sat. Rev. 21 Oct. 513/2 In America the legs of tables have been seen by travellers encased in frilled trousers. 1867 W. B. Tegetmeier Pigeons ix. 82 Some of the flying birds seen in this country are frilled very much like an Owl or a Turbit. 1889 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 302 The very beggar or fakir in the streets, whose face has more lines of humiliation and dejection than a frilled negative. |