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Meanings of flounce in English

Catalan
farbalà
Spanish
volante
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Strip of fabric, lace or ribbon tightly gathered or pleated on one edge and applied to a garment, bedding, or other textile as a form of trimming; more smooth than ruffle.

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Usage of flounce in English
1
She gave a moue and a flounce in reply, and swished out.
The Old Wives' Tale
2
You will see a double flounce running round the bottom of it.
No Name
3
You don't let your customers down and flounce off without a care.
The Guardian
4
A curly fair hair flew from one linen flounce into the sunlight.
The Secret Eleanor
5
With a flounce, Lilith tossed her head and stepped into the circle.
Last Blood
6
Good, she wasn't tripping on the double lace flounce any longer.
The devil she knows
7
This engraving represents a flounce of darned-net in its actual size or width.
The Art of Modern Lace Making
8
The modest lace flounce that falls in vertical folds decreases her formidable corsage.
What Dress Makes of Us
9
A wide flounce of Valenciennes at the bottom of the skirt.
Baron Trigault's Vengeance
10
I am free, he whooped, performing a charming John Inman flounce.
The Guardian
11
Madame, there is a hair-pin caught in the flounce below your right ankle.
The Genius
12
Perhaps she herself was struggling with the temptation to flounce from the room.
Atonement
13
I want you to run up a tear in my flounce.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long
14
The red named in Fanny's cheeks, and she turned away with a flounce.
The Testing of Diana Mallory
15
Sylvia took them and went into the house with a flounce.
The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel
16
She had finished her flounce, and she rose and gave Anne the needle.
Mistress Anne
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Translations for flounce
Spanish
volante
Flounce through the time
Flounce across language varieties
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