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There's no hard and fast rule, it's all in the ear/eye of the beholder. It's the kind of thing you can't really explain, but you know it when you see it.
Margaret is entirely feminine, but you would never call it frilly.
Annabelle is feminine and I would call it frilly. But it isn't only the fact that it has the very feminine elle ending or the very feminine anna beginning; Anna itself doesn't strike me as frilly, and neither does Michelle.

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