Garnish vs Frill - What's the difference?
garnish | frill |
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
* Spenser
(cooking) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
To furnish; to supply.
(slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter
(legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
Pewter vessels in general.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 478:
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy or decorated.
* Shakespeare
* Prior
(cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
(slang, obsolete) Fetters.
(slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
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.
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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 shake or shiver as with cold.
As verbs the difference between garnish and frill
is that garnish is to decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish while frill is to make something into a frill.As nouns the difference between garnish and frill
is that garnish is a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types while frill is a strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.garnish
English
Verb
- All within with flowers was garnished .
- By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* garnishee * garnishment * garnishorNoun
(garnishes)- The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish .
- So are you, sweet, / Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
- Matter and figure they produce; / For garnish this, and that for use.
- (Fielding)
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English
Noun
(en noun)- 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
* jabotVerb
(en verb)- to frill a cap
- The hawk frills .
- (Johnson)