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Etymology

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From be- +‎ frill.

Verb

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befrill (third-person singular simple present befrills, present participle befrilling, simple past and past participle befrilled)

  1. (transitive) To furnish or decorate with a frill.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for befrill”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)