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flounce

[flouns] / flaʊns /


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For fall, diaphanous tiers of 1970s flounce in almost angelically light hues defined the show’s aesthetic inside a brutalist warehouse space.

From Seattle Times Feb. 29, 2024

Only a generation ago, some gardener-critics thought them lacking in elegance and refinement, too conspicuous in their flounce.

From Washington Post Nov. 15, 2022

The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were confluence and flounce.

From New York Times Aug. 26, 2022

The Hollywood Reporter's Robyn Bahr agreed that "the flounce and fizziness of the original series are largely absent from this moodier and more self-serious one".

From BBC Dec. 9, 2021

With a flounce of petticoats she turned away.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

While she spoke animatedly from a green room couch, Day’s bubblegum pink off-shoulder tee and baggy white pants repeatedly flounced out and then resettled in new shapes.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2026

The self-confident Mr Lindner overplayed his hand four years ago, and was accused of shirking responsibility when he flounced out of coalition talks.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2021

A few months later, he quietly crawled back to Twitter and starting posting again, never acknowledging that he had flounced away in righteous indignation.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2021

He finally flounced out of the room with her looking daggers in his back.

From Slate Apr. 19, 2020

He beat at the net with his wings and flounced all over the place.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Manuel Puig’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is perhaps best known in the U.S. as the film that won William Hurt an Oscar for flouncing around a prison cell in a kimono.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2023

Nemec recognizes this, to some degree, by only mentioning a central figure from the anime who is basically a flailing, flouncing mess of childish squeaks and quirks.

From Salon Nov. 20, 2021

"Rather than flouncing off", said Mr Hussain, the judge showed humour and "embraced" the fluffy intruder.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2021

The team are still confident there will be no flouncing.

From The Guardian Apr. 10, 2017

There was no pivotal moment of creative difference, no storming or flouncing out.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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