Frill vs Pantalettes - What's the difference?
frill | pantalettes |
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.
A form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg
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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)- 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)