Definitions for flounces

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flounces flounce

Spelling: [flouns]

IPA: /flaʊns/

Flounces is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 276 anagrams from letters in flounces (ceflnosu).

Definitions for flounces

noun

1. an act or instance of flouncing; a flouncing movement.
2. a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to trim with flounces.

verb (used without object)

1. to go with impatient or impetuous, exaggerated movements:
2. to throw the body about spasmodically; flounder.

Origin of flounces

1535-45; of obscure origin; perhaps akin to Norwegian flunsa to hurry

Examples for flounces

She had finished her flounce, and she rose and gave Anne the needle.

And she gave a flounce and sat up straight in front of her mother.

Evelyn had perched herself on the post of Anne's bed and was mending the flounce.

Their skirts, homespun, were made with what we used to call a Spanish flounce.

A lady had the flounce of her dress torn off; a man lost his hat.

Mrs. Judson took occasion to flounce by me in her work of clearing the table.

It was just sticking by its pin in the flounce of my brown silk, that I wore yesterday.

How delightfully they impart to each other the pattern of a cap, or flounce, or frill!

No one could detect a flaw in her character, or a fold awry in her flounce.

Marjorie glanced up from the flounce she was setting to rights.