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Frill vs Pantalettes - What's the difference?

frill | pantalettes |

As nouns the difference between frill and pantalettes

is that frill is a strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle while pantalettes is a form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg.

As a verb frill

is to make something into a frill.

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

    pantalettes

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pantalets

    Noun

    (-)
  • A form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg
  • * 1929 , , Chapter IX, Section iii:
  • *:In the second row of the with streamers,

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "pantalettes")