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Frill vs Frayed - What's the difference?

frill | frayed |

As verbs the difference between frill and frayed

is that frill is to make something into a frill while frayed is (fray).

As a noun frill

is a strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.

As an adjective frayed is

unravelled, worn at the end or edge.

frill

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.
  • (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
  • A luxury.
  • Something extraneous added for effect.
  • *
    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills , ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

    See also

    * jabot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make something into a frill.
  • To become wrinkled.
  • To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
    • to frill a cap
  • To shake or shiver as with cold.
    • The hawk frills .
    (Johnson)

    Derived terms

    * frilly * no frills * turkey frills

    frayed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unravelled, worn at the end or edge.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (fray)

    • Anagrams

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