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- adjective Not
frilly .
Etymologies
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un- + frilly
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Examples
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She played with femininity on Tuesday evening, offering swank, unfrilly ruffles on dresses, purses and shoes, and suits and dresses that were made not of the expected wool gabardine, but of exotic lace.
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Dressed in an unfrilly white pinafore over a dark blue gabardine dress, with a small white cap on her head that looked incongruously as if it had been folded in the manner of a child's paper boat, she sat at a reception desk with a ledger open in front of her.
Beacon Street Mourning Day, Dianne 2000
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