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English
Noun
frislet (plural frislets)
- A kind of small ruffle.
1907 March 2, “Old Clo'”, in Living Age Company (Seventh; XXXIV), volume CCLII, number 3269, page 574:Wimples, colfs, cascanets, carkenels, fusles, frislets, palisadoes, who cares about them any more?
1907, Dion Clayton Calthrop, English Costume Painted and Described by Dion Clayton Calthrop, Adam and Charles Black, page 340:In this medley of things we shall see purles, falles, […] parlets, frislets, fillets, […] and whalebone wheels—Eve!
1912, Fielding Burke, The mortal gods: and other plays, Scribner's, page 219:For it is shame enough to 've thought to make
A frislet of their own shake like the locks
Of cloud-hared Zeus.
1968, Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (17th viscount), quoting Thomas Tomkis, edited by Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (17th viscount), Lingua, or the Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority, 1st edition, 1607, quoted in Costume in England: History, Singing Tree Press, pages 294–295:such stir with sticks and combs […] partlets, frislets, bandlets, […] and so many lets, that yet she is scarce drest to the girdle.
2012 May 11, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, “Woadmongers and frislets.”, in TLS. Times Literary Supplement, number 5693, London, England: NI Syndication Limited, page 21:Unfamiliar words abound, including many intriguing professional roles --ippers, woadmongers, cordwainers--and objects--perukes, frislets (small ruffles) and spangles.
References
- James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “FRISLET”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, , →OCLC.
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