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  • adjective gathered and pleated

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Examples

  • I did not dress up in flouncy white dresses and veils, did not own bride dolls swathed on poufy white satin, did not walk my Barbie and Ken up imaginary aisles lined in flowing tulle or carry hairbrushes as bouquets as I practised the measured steps a bride is taught to take on her way to the alter where she will be joined with her husband-to-be.

    Archive 2007-05-01 kittenpie 2007

  • I did not dress up in flouncy white dresses and veils, did not own bride dolls swathed on poufy white satin, did not walk my Barbie and Ken up imaginary aisles lined in flowing tulle or carry hairbrushes as bouquets as I practised the measured steps a bride is taught to take on her way to the alter where she will be joined with her husband-to-be.

    Decade Dance kittenpie 2007

  • “Those long dresses … drove me crazy,” he wrote, noting that men macho enough to turn their spouses into robotic stereotypes of picture-perfect wives probably wouldn’t want them dressed in flouncy gowns.

    Welcome Back to Stepford | PopPolitics.com 2004

  • “Those long dresses … drove me crazy,” he wrote, noting that men macho enough to turn their spouses into robotic stereotypes of picture-perfect wives probably wouldn’t want them dressed in flouncy gowns.

    Welcome Back to Stepford | PopPolitics.com 2004

  • “Those long dresses … drove me crazy,” he wrote, noting that men macho enough to turn their spouses into robotic stereotypes of picture-perfect wives probably wouldn’t want them dressed in flouncy gowns.

    Print - Welcome Back to Stepford | PopPolitics.com 2004

  • Alan Alda: "Hawkish Hawkeye haters name-check him as a kind of flouncy, male

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • She was like a 5'2″ Barbie doll, with gorgeous flouncy hair, a great smile, and sparkling blue eyes beneath very long lashes.

    Anne Hill: How Nora Ephron Ruined My Life Anne Hill 2011

  • She was like a 5'2″ Barbie doll, with gorgeous flouncy hair, a great smile, and sparkling blue eyes beneath very long lashes.

    Anne Hill: How Nora Ephron Ruined My Life Anne Hill 2011

  • I haven't figured out how to blend the glasses look with perky-colored, flouncy ensembles.

    Non-Granny Reading Glasses Katherine Rosman 2011

  • Given the choice between wearing a morning suit and a silly flouncy dress, a hat and some heels a woman in a hat and flats is generally a member of the armed services or a traffic warden, which would you choose?

    A Flashy, Positively Ghastly Spectacle Tina Gaudoin 2011

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