Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or act of plaiting, frilling, or curling.
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- verb Present participle of
frounce .
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Examples
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Grislye faces frouncing, eke against Troy leaged in hatred
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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Milliners three or four hundred years ago must have been more accomplished in the arts, as Prynne calls them, of crisping, curling, frizzling, and frouncing, than all the tirewomen of
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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