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How to pronounce “frill”
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Pronunciation guide for frill
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of frill with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Otters of Singapore — and Other Unexpected Wildlife Thriving in Cities
and if you notice, the monitor lizard's frill is open,
- Definition summary
- A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
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How to pronounce frill
The Otters of Singapore — and Other Unexpected Wildlife Thriving in Cities

and if you notice, the monitor lizard's frill is open,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “frill”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
- (figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
- (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
- (figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
- (zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
- (mycology) Synonym of armilla.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To make into a frill.
- (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
- (transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
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