Also means
expenses, costs (noun plural: les frais)
Usage Note
Frais as an adjective describes cool temperature or freshness (l'air est frais, 'the air is cool'; du pain frais, 'fresh bread'). Its feminine form is fraîche. As a masculine plural noun les frais means costs or expenses — frais de livraison ('delivery charges'). The idiom à la fraîche means 'in the cool of the day'.
Examples
"Il fait frais ce matin."
Natural Translation
It is cool this morning.

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