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Synonyms for frill

  • noun

Most common

flounce furbelow non-sense fol de rol hood ruff armilla

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Ruffle — A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim

ruffle, flounce, furbelow, edging

2. Trumpery

non-sense, fol de rol, trumpery, gimcrack, gimcrackery

Other

ruff, hood, armilla

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.

  2. n. 2

    A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.

Related words

Word family
frilly

Forms

Plural
frills → ruffles, flounces, furbelows, edgings…

Example sentences

  • hood Do you prefer buying clothes with or without a hood?
  • ruff That dog has been barking 'Ruff-ruff-ruff-ruff!' all day long.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
frillsteady
flouncerising
furbelowsteady
hoodrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
hood1, ruff1
6 letters
edging2, ruffle2
7 letters
flounce1, armilla3
8 letters
gimcrack, trumpery, furbelow
11 letters
gimcrackery

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (edging2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
froufrou