1. a ruff or collar of lace or other fine material worn around the neck
Usage: historical; fashion

Examples

• The portrait showed a nobleman wearing an elaborate fraises around his neck.
• Renaissance fashion often featured ornate fraises made of delicate lace.
• The museum’s costume collection includes several examples of 16th-century fraises.
• She studied the intricate pleating of the fraises in the painting.
• The actor’s costume included a starched white fraises for the period drama.