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Definition of "flouncing" [flouncing]

  • Material used to make flounces. (noun)
  • A flounce or an arrangement of flounces, as on a curtain. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "flouncing" in a sentence
  • "Her son recalls her flouncing around the family's Queens, N.Y., apartment with her robe hanging open, descending on his bed in the middle of the night when he was young, like "a road-company Barbara Stanwyck, but more frightening.""
  • "“I’ve seen Julian Assange in the last couple of days kind of flouncing around talking about this collaboration like the four of us were working all this together,” says Schmitt."
  • ""flouncing" in the quick rustle with which she left the room."
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