Crossword clues for flounced
flounced
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flounce \Flounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flounced (flounst); p. pr. & vb. n. Flouncing.] [Cf. OSw. flunsa to immerge.] To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and
bruise us.
--Barrow.
With his broad fins and forky tail he laves
The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: flounce)
Usage examples of "flounced".
It Was showered and flounced with cream-colored Chantilly lace that had come from Charleston on the last blockader, and Maybelle was flaunting it as saucily as if she and not the famous Captain Butler had run the blockade.
Except for the wan flicker of the paper lanterns, there was little illumination, but he could make out that the person at the table wore a long dress, pale and flounced, and a broad hat half-obscured by inky shadow.
For some reason - perhaps his weariness - he didn't mention the figure in the flounced dress.
Biri nodded at the key points, and frowned when Michael mentioned the figure in the flounced dress.
George flounced around in his chair, seeking a new or comfortable position as well as another victim.
He stood for a moment as the active waves of the incoming tide flounced against his thighs.
She gestured eastward in a histrionic fashion, then flounced down on the chair the violin had occupied.
And above my narrow waist and my sweeping flounced skirts I donned the very best of my jackets.
Her dress was meticulous: the heavy, flounced embroidered skirts that flowed to either side of her as she walked.
He waited until she'd put on her lipstick, then grabbed her and kissed her, smearing the color outside her lip line, chuckling to himself as she flounced back to the mirror to repair the job.
She settled for sweeping everything off the countertop—a couple of potted plants, membership applications, a couple of pens—onto the floor and flounced out with the parting shot that her lawyer would be in touch with me.
She drew forth a deep red flounced skirt that she bound as tightly as she could about her still-thickened and soft belly, then slipped her arms into a golden jacket that she tied loosely about her waist, leaving it unbuttoned so that her full breasts remained exposed.
We followed the old Minoan fashion here in Mesopotama (one of my foremothers much removed had come from Crete, I believe, bringing the fashion with her), and all noble unmarried girls displayed their breasts above their tight-waisted flounced skirts and between the flaring stiffened lapels of their heavily embroidered jackets.
I had dressed carefully that morning, donning the stiffest and thickest of my flounced ankle-length skirts, knowing that their swaying as I moved drew the eye to my hips.
Then Rhett leaned over and swiftly released it She flounced off without a word, without even a backward look, and he laughed softly and clicked to the horse.