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frillings

frillings is the plural of frilling.

Meaning of frilling

Noun

frilling (plural frillings)

  1. A frilled ornamentation on clothing.
    • So she sat, corpselike, as we played at cards; the frillings and trimmings on her bridal dress, looking like earthy paper.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VIII, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 126

Questions about frillings

What is frillings the plural of?
Frillings is the plural of frilling.

Words near frillings in the dictionary

  1. frillies
  2. frilliest
  3. frillily
  4. frilliness
  5. frilling
  6. frillings
  7. frillless
  8. frillneck
  9. frillnecks
  10. frills
  11. frillsome

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