FLOUNCE
\flˈa͡ʊns], \flˈaʊns], \f_l_ˈaʊ_n_s]\
Definitions of FLOUNCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
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The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
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An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
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To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
By Oddity Software
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To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
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The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
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An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
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To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
By Noah Webster.
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A narrow piece of cloth sewed to a skirt, with the lower border loose and spreading; a deep ruffle; a sudden movement of the body.
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To trim with deep ruffles.
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To throw the limbs and body about.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To move abruptly or impatiently; to plunge and struggle.
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An impatient gesture.
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A plaited strip or border sewed to the skirt of a dress.
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To furnish with flounces.
By Daniel Lyons
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To furnish with flounces.
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A gathered or plaited strip on a skirt.
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To fling oneself about petulantly.
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The act of flouncing; a fling.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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