What is "flounces"

Usage examples of "flounces".

The green plaid taffeta, froth­ing with flounces and each flounce edged in green velvet ribbon, was most becoming, in fact her favorite dress, for it darkened her eyes to emerald.

They were a pretty, buxom quar­tette, so crammed into the carriage that their hoops and flounces overlapped and their parasols nudged and bumped together above their wide leghorn sun hats, crowned with roses and dangling with black velvet chin ribbons.

She could look back, unmoved, at the pretty Scarlett with her fragile green morocco slippers and her flounces fragrant with lavender but she wondered if she could be that same girl.

Filthy petticoats and tawdry flounces of stolen silk, faces smeared white and scarlet over bruises and broken veins.

She was dressed in white muslin, with a hundred frills and flounces, and knots of pale-colored ribbon.

Filthy petti­coats and tawdry flounces of stolen silk, faces smeared white and scarlet over bruises and broken veins.

It was a pale lavender muslin trimmed with matching ribbon and several rows of flounces around the hem.

Prudence noticed that there was only one small row of flounces around the hem of the gown.

She was radiant in a pale pink muslin gown trimmed with flounces and ribbons.

It was a very attractive one of turquoise muslin trimmed with white flounces and ribbon.