To kick or flouncewhen unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces.
To flutter andflounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.
Defn: A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.
Defn: To deck with a flounceor flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
When I saw those two girls I wondered how far the four pounds fifteen which I earned in blood and sweat in mid-Tyrone went to decorate their bodies and flounce their hides.
A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.
She lifted her torn and trailing flounce and pulled her cloak about her bare shoulders as she opened the street door.
She strode to and fro, kicking her torn flounce and trailing skirt out of the way with savage resentment.
When I was at the height of the flounce fever, he begged me to have a frock and trousers made for the grand piano, as he was sure it must wound my sensibilities to see it so bare.
Poor Perch, it is useless labor for thee to flounce and splash in that manner, for no pity will be shown thee, and thou shalt be dashed on the sand, and left there to quiver in the agonies of death.
It is also an improvement, if instead of only a hideous crackle of calico beneath, there be a full flounce or petticoat of batiste which would give colour and graceful folds together.
She was trying the effect of a large pink bow against the lace flounce of an empty but inviting bassinette.
Just as we were introduced, that horrid little Willie Peck caught his heel in a flounce of my skirt.
Smiling to herself as she saw him leaving without his hat, Zoie slipped it quickly beneath a flounce of her skirt.
Jimmy, objecting to any scheme of Zoie's on general principles.
I want you to take care of her friend Aggie, and leave me alone with Zoie as much as possible.
No sooner had Alfred reached the sill of the door than his hand went involuntarily to his head; he turned to the table where he had left his hat.
No sooner had his eye scanned the first headline than he was startled by a boisterous greeting from a fellow traveller, who was just passing down the aisle.
One evening when he had waited until he was out of all patience with Aggie, he was told by his late and apologetical spouse that she had been helping Zoie to redecorate her bedroom to fit the coming occasion.
Jimmy could not help feeling that this lure to Alfred's senses was absolutely indecent, and he said so.
Try as he would he could not find words to break the silence that had fallen between them.
You ACT like it," declared Zoie, with some truth on her side.
And Jimmy," exclaimed Alfred with glistening eyes, "what do you think?
Each of these bands falls over the gathering of the other, the last covering the top of the flounce which runs round the skirt.
A noteworthy feature is that her dress, of bright blue and white material, shows horizontal stripes to the knees, where it is joined by a slightly fuller flounce with the stripes running vertically.
At the foot is a flounce which, when the wearer walks, shows occasional glimpses of pink silk and cream lace, and the wide sleeves bear sequin-embroidered cuffs and lace ruffles.
It was much longer, reaching to the feet when ungirded and having in addition a wide border or flounce (instita) sewed to the lower hem.
If the flounces are on the straight, allow eight widths in the flounce to six widths in the skirt.
A small cord run in at the top of the flounce makes it look neat.
For the fullness of a flounce allow one width on the cross to one width on the straight of your skirt; so that if you have six widths in your skirts, you will have six widths in your flounces on the cross.
If the skirt is to have flounces, they must be put on before you gauge the top; and while the skirt is on the table, put a white tacking thread round the skirt where eachflounce is to be fixed.
I tell thee every new-born babe is the magnificent flesh-flounce of a shivering, trembling, nudity.
Howbeit, the following deserves a place as the tail-flounce of his Fantasy.
A double flounce running round the bottom of this dress was the only milliner's ornament which it presented--an ornament not at all out of character with the costume appropriated to an elderly lady.
He passed the flounce slowly through his fingers for a minute or more, then stopped and looked up.
He put it into the vacant space in the flounce as well as his trembling fingers would let him.
You will see a double flounce running round the bottom of it.
The other night I thought you were somewhere out on board a junk, and Flounce with you.
The two companions passed on, with Flounce timidly at heel.
Flounce killed several this afternoon, so my--" No one heeded him; all stared.
Look," he called, stumbling toward the farther window, while Flounce the terrier and a wonk puppy ran nipping at his heels.
And if you hear a frog jump into the pond with a flounce like a stone thrown in, be sure you run and tell me, because it is a sign of rain.
Twice she reappeared at intervals of a few minutes and each time she said-- "Not any flounce into the pond yet, little man?
The top flounce is headed by a single row of fringe.
Illustration: On the aerial summit takes the gale] Nor undelighted by the boundless Spring Are the broad monsters of the foaming deep: From the deep ooze and gelid caverns rous'd, They flounce and tumble in unwieldy joy.
Kate Sencerbox, shortly, "you've stitched that flouncetogether with a twist in it!
She has ripped the lace flounce from her reception dress while putting it on, and wants you to repair it for her.
This was draped over a plain peach-colored satin petticoat, and trimmed with a deep flounce of finest point lace.
And now she has promised to mend that lace flounce for me to-morrow, so I shall be able to practice before Herr Ludwig comes.
Averil did not answer for a moment--when she next spoke it was to question Annette about the torn lace flounce she was to mend for Lottie.
Other dresses of the same material have drawn corsagas, and then the top flounce is set on at the lower end of the waist, and by that means serves as a basque.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flounce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
