- 1a strip of cloth that is sewn around the edge of a skirt, dress, curtain, etc. little girls dressed in frills and flounces
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- 2a quick and exaggerated movement that you make when you are angry or want people to notice you She left the room with a flounce.
adjective a flounced skirtSee flounce in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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