Definition of "flounce" [flounce]

• A strip of decorative, usually gathered or pleated material attached by one edge, as on a garment or curtain. (noun)
• To trim with a strip or strips of gathered or pleated material. (verb-transitive)
• To move in a lively or bouncy manner: The children flounced around the room in their costumes. (verb-intransitive)
• To move with exaggerated or affected motions: flounced petulantly out of the house. (verb-intransitive)
• To move clumsily; flounder. (verb-intransitive)

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.

• "The comment by conservatism is my antidrug @ 111 is what is called a flounce, the troll is begging to have this sock-puppet banned."
• "In another town the awning from a shop window must not exceed a certain length, and you are told of a poor widow, who, having just had a new one put up at great expense, was compelled by the police to take the whole thing down, because the flounce was a quarter of an inch longer than the regulations prescribed."
• "The muslin gowns had been very successful; the skirts fell in a straight line from the waistband high under their arms to their feet, one with a little edge of fine white embroidery, the other with a frill scarcely to be called a flounce round the foot."