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frillery

frillery noun: frilly ornamentation.

Noun

frillery (countable and uncountable, plural frilleries)

  1. frilly ornamentation

Forms of frillery

pluralfrilleries

Origin of frillery

From frill + -ery.

Questions about frillery

What does frillery mean?
Frillery means frilly ornamentation.
What part of speech is frillery?
Frillery is a noun.
What is the plural of frillery?
The plural of frillery is frilleries.

Words near frillery in the dictionary

  1. frilled-neck lizard
  2. frilled-neck lizards
  3. friller
  4. frilleries
  5. frillers
  6. frillery
  7. frillgoby
  8. frillier
  9. frillies
  10. frilliest
  11. frillily

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