Word: frilled
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...lace-frill motif in valentines is decidedly on its way out," one stationer said. "That type is apparently joining the old comic valentine which disappeared several years ago. The modern valentine is becoming clean-cut and the ones with a touch of humor are the most popular...
...Divide et Impera," reasoned the British, and told the Americans of the mysterious visit of a French emissary to London. "The French have betrayed their word," they whispered slyly, "They will get a separate peace, and you will get nothing." Dr. Franklin stroked his lace frill with bejeweled chubby fingers and pondered the possibilities of a separate peace. Le Comte de Vergennes toyed with the silver inkpot on his satinwood desk, and tried to fathom the strange actions of his friends the Americans. Even Dr. Franklin received him a bit stiffly, a bit coldly...
...Mother Advocate's sixty-fifth birthday provides an occasion for declaring a verbal truce, however. Decked out in her new white party dress, with only a brightened green frill as a vestige of the by-gone years, she has made her dowager debut. Whereas Pegasus, her ancestral sire, has been rejuvenated by Spring, she has had a completely modern face-lifting. But the old lady was clever enough to realize the futility of mere external dressing up. A blood transfusion was made and in her haughty blue veins there now flow some new corpuscles--some with a crimson tinge...
...frill'd and closely curtain...
...their admiration . . . differently from us, that's all. . . . "On the other hand, / would very much like to be described as having the appearance of a lucky stockbroker. To me the terrible adjective 'dainty' is usually applied, as if I were a bit of lace or a frill. Perhaps Mr. Wells wouldn't mind being called 'dainty.' I am willing to exchange...