"frislet" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: frislets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} frislet (plural frislets)
  1. A kind of small ruffle.
    Sense id: en-frislet-en-noun-MBAv5JER Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1907 March 2, “Old Clo'”, in Living Age Company (Seventh; XXXIV), volume CCLII, number 3269, page 574:",
          "text": "Wimples, colfs, cascanets, carkenels, fusles, frislets, palisadoes, who cares about them any more?",
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        {
          "ref": "1907, Dion Clayton Calthrop, English Costume Painted and Described by Dion Clayton Calthrop, Adam and Charles Black, page 340:",
          "text": "In this medley of things we shall see purles, falles, […] parlets, frislets, fillets, […] and whalebone wheels—Eve!",
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        {
          "ref": "1912, Fielding Burke, The mortal gods: and other plays, Scribner's, page 219:",
          "text": "For it is shame enough to 've thought to make\n A frislet of their own shake like the locks\n Of cloud-hared Zeus.",
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          "ref": "1968, Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (17th viscount), quoting Thomas Tomkis, edited by Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (17th viscount), Lingua, or the Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority, 1st edition, 1607, quoted in Costume in England: History, Singing Tree Press, pages 294–295:",
          "text": "such stir with sticks and combs […] partlets, frislets, bandlets, […] and so many lets, that yet she is scarce drest to the girdle.",
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          "ref": "2012 May 11, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, “Woadmongers and frislets.”, in TLS. Times Literary Supplement, number 5693, London, England: NI Syndication Limited, page 21:",
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