Definition of "frill" []

• A ruffled, gathered, or pleated border or projection, such as a fabric edge used to trim clothing or a curled paper strip for decorating the end of the bone of a piece of meat. (noun)
• A ruff of hair or feathers about the neck of an animal or a bird. (noun)
• A wrinkling of the edge of a photographic film. (noun)
• Informal Something that is desirable but not a necessity; a luxury. See Synonyms at luxury. (noun)
• To make into a ruffle or frill. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Champagne tickles and you get a thrill and the frill is short lived, but a fine wine?"
• "Though both dinosaurs sported three facial horns, the Torosaurus had a bigger "frill" - the bony shield atop its head - with two large holes in it."
• "... a short term frill, usually a mistake - a drunken one in some cases, and best forgotten till the next ..."