A white dress on a woman-a real woman, understand; not an imitation one-looks handsome; and I never see a girl dressed in white that I do not fall in love with her, but when the old lady puts it on, with a frill at her neck, or any such trifling thing, I want to find a woodpile and an axe to cut off my feet.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
He was a young man now, but he had been starved so that he wore still around his long neck the frill of the collar that loving hands had placed there when he was a little child.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
In any case, arrange for the dining table a centerpiece of a shiny tin funnel filled with bright garden or wild flowers surrounded by a frill of lace paper to represent an old-fashioned, formal bouquet.
"Entertaining Made Easy"
Emily Rose Burt