ppl. a. [f. FRILL sb.1 or v.1 + -ED1 or 2.] Having, wearing, or adorned with a frill, or something like a frill. Of a photographic plate: Raised in flutes at the edges. Frilled lizard = frill-lizard. Hence Frilledness.
1825. Ld. Cockburn, Mem., i. (1856), 37. It was best done by the polite ruffled and frilled gentlemen of the olden time.
1827. L. Hunt, in Hone, Everyday Bk., II. 190. A portrait of her husband over the mantelpiece, in a coat with frog-buttons, and a delicate frilled hand lightly inserted in the waistcoat.
1863. Wood, Illustr. Nat. Hist., III. 87. The Frilled Lizard is a native of Australia, and, like most of the family, is generally found on trees, which it can traverse with great address.
1865. The Saturday Review, XX. 21 Oct., 513/2. In America the legs of tables have been seen by travellers encased in frilled trousers.
1867. W. B. Tegetmeier, Pigeons, ix. 82. Some of the flying birds seen in this country are frilled very much like an Owl or Turbit.
1889. Anthony’s Photogr. Bull., II. 302. The very beggar or fakir in the streets, whose face has more lines of humiliation and dejection than a frilled negative.
