Synonyms for flounce
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : flouns |
| Phonetic Transcription : flaÊŠns |
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Définition of flounce
Origin :- 1540s, "to dash, plunge, flop," perhaps from Scandinavian (cf. dialectal Swedish flunsa "to plunge," Norwegian flunsa "to hurry," but first record of these is 200 years later than the English word), said to be of imitative origin. Spelling likely influenced by bounce. Notions of "anger, impatience" began to adhere to the word 18c. Related: Flounced; flouncing. As a noun, from 1580s as a motion.
- verb bounce; intermittently move
- Mrs. Judson took occasion to flounce by me in her work of clearing the table.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- A lady had the flounce of her dress torn off; a man lost his hat.
- Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
- How delightfully they impart to each other the pattern of a cap, or flounce, or frill!
- Extract from : « The Young Duke » by Benjamin Disraeli
- Marjorie glanced up from the flounce she was setting to rights.
- Extract from : « Marjorie Dean » by Pauline Lester
- And she gave a flounce and sat up straight in front of her mother.
- Extract from : « Five Little Peppers And How They Grew » by Margaret Sidney
- Their skirts, homespun, were made with what we used to call a Spanish flounce.
- Extract from : « A Wayfarer in China » by Elizabeth Kendall
- It was just sticking by its pin in the flounce of my brown silk, that I wore yesterday.
- Extract from : « A House to Let » by Charles Dickens
- Evelyn had perched herself on the post of Anne's bed and was mending the flounce.
- Extract from : « Mistress Anne » by Temple Bailey
- She had finished her flounce, and she rose and gave Anne the needle.
- Extract from : « Mistress Anne » by Temple Bailey
- No one could detect a flaw in her character, or a fold awry in her flounce.
- Extract from : « Kenelm Chillingly, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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