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"word": "frill-necked lizard"
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"word": "Newgate frill"
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"word": "put on frills"
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"word": "shirt-frill"
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"word": "turkey frill"
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"text": "1777, Samuel Jackson Pratt (as Courtney Melmoth), Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence, London: G. Robinson and J. Bew, Volume 5, Chapter 114, p. 163,\n[…] one of her husband Jeffery’s shirts (with frills to the bosom) […]"
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"word": "flounce"
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"word": "furbelow"
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"word": "ruffle"
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"word": "röyhelö"
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"tags": [
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rüsche"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Krause"
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"_dis1": "79 15 3 1 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"word": "fodor"
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"_dis1": "79 15 3 1 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balza"
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"_dis1": "79 15 3 1 2",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "gala"
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"word": "フリル"
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"word": "pōtete"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 15 3 1 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"word": "pōtētete"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"tags": [
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"_dis1": "79 15 3 1 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"word": "babado"
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
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"roman": "obórka",
"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "обо́рка"
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
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"word": "жабо́"
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
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"sense": "pleated material used as decoration",
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"ref": "1979, Angela Carter, “The Company of Wolves”, in The Bloody Chamber, Penguin, published 1993",
"text": "[T]he bright frills of the winter fungi on the blotched trunks of the trees;",
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},
{
"ref": "2009, Sarah Waters, chapter 12, in The Little Stranger, London: Virago",
"text": "‘Isn’t it a shame!’ Mrs Ayres said softly, now and then pausing to brush aside a frill of snow and examine the plant beneath […]",
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"A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric."
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"(figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric."
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"Culture",
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"A wrinkled edge to a film."
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"(photography) A wrinkled edge to a film."
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"_dis1": "2 9 83 1 5",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "wrinkled edge",
"word": "kihara"
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"sense": "wrinkled edge",
"word": "arricciamento"
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"ref": "1989, John Irving, chapter 2, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, Toronto: Vintage Canada, published 2009, page 91",
"text": "Torontonians clutter their brick and stone houses with too much trim, or with window trim and shutters—and they also carve their shutters with hearts or maple leaves—but the snow conceals these frills;",
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"(figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury."
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"word": "ylellisyys"
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"roman": "róskošʹ",
"sense": "luxury",
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"word": "ро́скошь"
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"ref": "1943, Xavier Herbert, chapter 14, in Capricornia, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton-Century, page 227",
"text": "A large admiral lizard leapt up on a rail, stood on hind legs with fore legs raised like hands and watched for a moment […], then loped down the cess-path with arms swinging and iridescent frill flying out like a cape […]",
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"ref": "1997, Richard Flanagan, chapter 54, in The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove Press",
"text": "She reminded Bojan of a desert lizard throwing up its frill to frighten predators.",
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"(zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one."
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"word": "kaulus"
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"To make into a frill."
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"(transitive) To make into a frill."
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"To become wrinkled."
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"(intransitive) To become wrinkled."
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"text": "1863, Charles Dickens, Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings, Chapter 4, in All the Year Round, Volume 10, Extra Christmas Number, 3 December, 1863, p. 35,\nMrs. Sandham, formerly Kate Barford, is working at a baby’s frock, and asking now and then the advice of her sister, who is frilling a little cap."
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"To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk)."
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"(intransitive, obsolete, falconry) To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk)."
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"text": "1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, Chester: for the author, Book 2, Chapter 13, “Of the Voices of Birds,” p. 310,\nThe Eagle Frilleth, or Scriketh\nThe Hawk, as Falcon, Gawshawk, and all such Birds of Prey, cryeth, peepeth, or frilleth."
}
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"word": "frill-necked lizard"
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"word": "frill shark"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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