Be-flounced

Quick meaning: Be-flounced is an adjective meaning Alternative form of beflounced.

Meaning

Alternative form of beflounced.

Example Sentences

[…]be-ringleted and be-flounced à la vigeur, of those elegant publications—feathers waving, ribbons floating, brown gowns vandyked with orange, and scarlet trimmed with sky blue, &c. &c.

[…]and Frank was already quite ashamed of his suspicions, and beginning to discard them as entirely unfounded, when again the door was thrown open, and, accompanied by her husband—overdressed, be-flounced, be-ringletted, and panting from the recent labours of the toilet—the real fugitive made her appearance in the portly person of Gertrude’s stepmother, the second Mrs Blake.

The gown of rich brocade, or of rustling silk, flowed out in many a yard of train, and be-flounced and be-furbelowed in all directions, the lofty pile of head-gear towering over the brow of the beautiful, the delicate and gorgeous colored skirt, ruffles bristling round the neck, and the demure cap, form a picture of graceful drapery, moving those of unfortunately recent date, to mourn for departed taste.

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