Definition of "flouncy" [flouncy]

• Gathered and pleated (adjective)

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• "I did not dress up in flouncy white dresses and veils, did not own bride dolls swathed on poufy white satin, did not walk my Barbie and Ken up imaginary aisles lined in flowing tulle or carry hairbrushes as bouquets as I practised the measured steps a bride is taught to take on her way to the alter where she will be joined with her husband-to-be."
• "“Those long dresses … drove me crazy,” he wrote, noting that men macho enough to turn their spouses into robotic stereotypes of picture-perfect wives probably wouldn’t want them dressed in flouncy gowns."
• "Alan Alda: "Hawkish Hawkeye haters name-check him as a kind of flouncy, male"