Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Material used to make flounces.
- noun A flounce or an arrangement of flounces, as on a curtain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Material for making flounces; flounces collectively: as, Chantilly flouncings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
flounce .
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Examples
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Her son recalls her flouncing around the family's Queens, N.Y., apartment with her robe hanging open, descending on his bed in the middle of the night when he was young, like "a road-company Barbara Stanwyck, but more frightening."
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Her son recalls her flouncing around the family's Queens, N.Y., apartment with her robe hanging open, descending on his bed in the middle of the night when he was young, like "a road-company Barbara Stanwyck, but more frightening."
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“I’ve seen Julian Assange in the last couple of days kind of flouncing around talking about this collaboration like the four of us were working all this together,” says Schmitt.
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"flouncing" in the quick rustle with which she left the room.
The Path to Honour Sydney C. Grier 1900
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When she wriggled suggestively in his lap, he scowled at her and said something in her ear that sent her flouncing away with a huff.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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On the other hand, I think the chaplain could have made her point without flouncing out of the room.
Out of Proportion 2009
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But the one person I noticed above all others was Violet, gliding across the floor with a spring in her step, the purple skirt flouncing, her mask down.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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Now that the Texas Rangers are one win away from knocking the Yankees out of the American League Championship Series, some of these people are probably flouncing around your office blowing air kisses.
When the Yankees Lose, So Do You Matthew Futterman 2010
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When she wriggled suggestively in his lap, he scowled at her and said something in her ear that sent her flouncing away with a huff.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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But the one person I noticed above all others was Violet, gliding across the floor with a spring in her step, the purple skirt flouncing, her mask down.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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