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a ruffle that screams I do nothing useful and I do it gorgeously.
means A decorative ruffle or pleated edging on fabric, and by extension any pretty but nonessential addition.
from Likely from the Flemish or Dutch word 'frul,' meaning a useless ornament or trifle — though the trail is faint and dictionaries hedge with a cautious 'origin uncertain.' Curiously, an older English sense of 'frill' described the way a hawk or other bird ruffled its feathers when cold, which fits the image perfectly: a fluffed-up edge that exists mostly to be seen.
- lizard defense
- frilled dragons flare neck skin to look terrifying
- word root
- likely from Flemish frul, meaning trifle
- no frills
- a whole airline marketing genre denying ruffles exist
- surgical scrap
- frill is meat trimming around a chop bone
- fashion history
- once signaled wealth, since you wasted fabric decoratively
elizabethan collar — elaborate starched neck ruff worn by english nobility in the 1580s-1590s, famously in portraits of queen elizabeth i
frilled-neck lizard — australian reptile with expandable skin flap around neck that deploys when threatened, native to tropical australia
ruffled grouse — north american game bird that displays a prominent neck ruff during courtship displays in spring