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Meanings of flounce in English
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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Examples for "ruffle"
Examples for "ruffle"
1
I was startled; Olympos was usually impossible to shock or even ruffle.
2
He could see the dull ruffle of the water under the wind.
3
Such endeavours appeared to ruffle Belvedere, and certainly disrupted any game plan.
4
The second photograph shows a Galliano ruffle dress hanging on a stand.
5
His tempers were the ruffle of a passing breeze upon deep water.
1
The front has a deep frill tacked on all around the chair.
2
A tuft of pink frill escaped from one side of the gag.
3
Nothing might she wear but her plain black frock and white frill.
4
I had an embroidered frill and very fine ruffles of point d'Alencon.
5
Round its hilt was a frill of paper, on which was scrawled:
1
You are innately volant if left to yourself.
2
They looked through the glass cages at these volant pterosaurs with American Airlines branded on their skins.
3
The arms are quarterly: first and fourth, vert, a herring, argent; second and third, azure, a solan-goose, volant, or.
4
Indeed, no book, however witty, lively, saltatory, can have the volant effects we covet, if it want substance and seriousness.
5
Clearly, given their biodiversity, distribution, and abundance, novel methods would be necessary to consider meaningful control of rabies in these unique volant mammals.
1
He has made no attempt to furbelow our finances.
2
Her sex was the very essence of her; she had no need to wear it like a furbelow.
3
A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics.
4
The dresses held an atmosphere of evaporated frivolity; flirtations lingered in every frill, and memories of old larks lurked in every furbelow.
5
The objects, ranging from furbelow clams to Indian blowguns, were borrowed from the Museum of Natural History and the New York Botanical Garden.
Usage of flounce in English
1
She gave a moue and a flounce in reply, and swished out.
2
You will see a double flounce running round the bottom of it.
3
You don't let your customers down and flounce off without a care.
4
A curly fair hair flew from one linen flounce into the sunlight.
5
With a flounce, Lilith tossed her head and stepped into the circle.
6
Good, she wasn't tripping on the double lace flounce any longer.
7
This engraving represents a flounce of darned-net in its actual size or width.
8
The modest lace flounce that falls in vertical folds decreases her formidable corsage.
9
A wide flounce of Valenciennes at the bottom of the skirt.
10
I am free, he whooped, performing a charming John Inman flounce.
11
Madame, there is a hair-pin caught in the flounce below your right ankle.
12
Perhaps she herself was struggling with the temptation to flounce from the room.
13
I want you to run up a tear in my flounce.
14
The red named in Fanny's cheeks, and she turned away with a flounce.
15
Sylvia took them and went into the house with a flounce.
16
She had finished her flounce, and she rose and gave Anne the needle.
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