frillsome
English
Adjective
frillsome (comparative more frillsome, superlative most frillsome)
- Characterised or marked by frill(s)
- 1916, Berta Ruck, In Another Girl's Shoes:
- And on the bed with its pretty eiderdown there was laid out my — that is her dress for to-night at dinner. A frillsome petticoat, a purple silk skirt (very full and looking short enough for a little girl) and a flesh-pink chiffon blouse, entirely transparent.
- 2005, Annual Report 2004-05 - Allsorts Youth Project:
- oh where is it now, that pink frillsome thing…
- 2009, Erik, The Snow Boy:
- Now I was sure psychologists had determined that a rustic bedroom was the most soothing ambiance for waking up from dead. This room was a little different from the previous one, less frillsome and more to my taste, but all the same basic elements were there.
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