Frillers

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person or device that produces frills, the decorative ruffled edging used on clothing, bedding, or furniture
2. Someone or something that gathers and attaches ruffled trim as ornamentation on fabric or other materials
3. A worker or tool whose job is to add pleated or ruffled decorative borders to garments and household textiles

Etymology: "Frillers" is simply the plural of "friller," a person or thing that frills, formed from "frill" with the suffix "-er," which marks an agent or a thing that does the action. A frill is the ruffled or gathered edging on a garment, and so a friller is something that makes or wears such decoration. The word is a plain, transparent formation, built from familiar parts rather than borrowed from another language.