vbl sb. [f. FRILL v.1 + -ING1.]
1. The action of putting a frill to (a garment); also concr. frilled edging; frills collectively.
1814. E. S. Barrett, Heroine, II. 167. Here was no sloping, or goring, or seaming, or frilling, or flouncing.
1861. Dickens, Gt. Expect., viii. So she sat, corpse-like, as we played at cards; the frillings and trimmings on her bridal dress, looking like earthy paper.
1886. J. K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts (1889), 153. [They] mourn with one another over the decadence of cambric frilling.
1896. Daily News, 7 March, 6/3. Accordeon-pleated frilling lavished on hats, toques, and capes.
attrib. 1887. Daily News, 7 Nov., 2/5. The ruching and frilling department is dull.
2. Photography. The rising of a gelatine film in flutes along the edge.
1880. Athenæum, 11 Dec., 782/1. ‘Frilling’ was prevented by the same means.
1890. Abney, Treat. Photogr. (ed. 6), 136. This ‘frilling’ of the plate takes place in the hyposulphite of soda solution.
