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Frill vs Touristify - What's the difference?

frill | touristify |

As verbs the difference between frill and touristify

is that frill is to make something into a frill while touristify is to make suitable for tourists, especially by adding superficial frills at the expense of authenticity.

As a noun frill

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

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

    touristify

    English

    Verb

  • To make suitable for tourists, especially by adding superficial frills at the expense of authenticity.