Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. …Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
puhekieltä To make into a frill.
puhekieltä To become wrinkled.
puhekieltä To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
Charles Dickens, Mrs. Lirripers Lodgings''
Mrs. Sandham, formerly Kate Barford, is working at a baby's frock, and asking now and then the advice of her sister, who is frilling a little cap.