frill
/frɪl/noun
1- a strip of gathered or pleated material sewn by one side on to a garment or larger piece of material as a decorative edging or ornament(服装等的)褶边; 荷叶边; 饰边。
1.1
- a thing resembling such a strip in appearance or function类似褶边的东西:
a frill of silver hair surrounded a shining bald pate.
一圈银发围绕着一个亮光光的秃头。
1.2
- a natural fringe of feathers or hair on a bird or other animal(鸟或其他动物的)缘羽, 缘毛。
1.3
- Palaeontology an upward-curving bony plate extending behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs【古生物】(延伸在角龙亚目恐龙头骨后的)向上弯曲的骨板, 骨皱, 骨褶。
1.4
- (一般作frills)figurative an unnecessary extra feature or embellishment〈喻〉不必添加的特色; 无用的装饰, 虚饰:
it was just a comfortable flat with no frills.
那正是一套舒适而又简洁的公寓。
派生词
frilled
adjectivefrillery
noun词源
late 16th cent.: from or related to Flemish frul.