flounce
noun/flaʊns/
/flaʊns/
- a piece of cloth that is sewn around the edge of a skirt, dress, curtain, etc.
- little girls dressed in frills and flounces
- [usually singular] (disapproving) a quick and exaggerated movement that you make when you are angry or want people to notice you
- She left the room with a flounce.
Word Originnoun sense 2 mid 16th cent.: perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian flunsa ‘hurry’, or perhaps symbolic, like bounce or pounce. noun sense 1 early 18th cent.: from an alteration of obsolete frounce ‘a fold or pleat’, from Old French fronce, of Germanic origin; related to ruck in the sense ‘ruck something up’.
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