FRILLED Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

frilled

verb

past tense of frill

as in fringed

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Castelo Ventoso is up a long dirt track fringed with cork trees.

— Lucy Gillmore, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2026
This spot, littered in condom wrappers and fringed by jungle, is familiar to her.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

Definition of fringed

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And Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wears dresses and blouses embroidered by Indigenous artisans to honor their textile traditions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
Likely embroidered in Canterbury, it is considered a significant icon of British identity and left England sometime before the late fifteenth century.

— News Desk, Artforum, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of embroidered

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Her glossy hair, braided into two plaits, hung down over her shoulders in a style unusual for young girls these days.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Rebecca wore her simple weekday covering over her hair, which had been pulled back in a ponytail, then braided and pinned up on the back of her head.

— Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of braided

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In the bathroom, there are shuttered windows wreathed with Como silk and a luscious roll-top bath.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
On a hill wreathed in mist above the dark sea that runs between New Zealand’s North and South Islands, Ward and others crossed rugged farmland late on Tuesday night, carrying seven crates in silence by dim red torchlight.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026

Definition of wreathed

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Still another woman, Julianna Arnold, recalled her daughter, Coco, communicating with someone on one of Meta’s apps who allegedly sold her a drug laced with a lethal dose of fentanyl.

— Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026
Hundreds of reactions and comments have been posted on Fort Bragg’s Facebook page, many laced with a dry humor often associated with veterans.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 18 Aug. 2026

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