flounce

Ana de Armas, best actress nominee for "Blonde," wore a silver column dress with a flamenco dancer-like flounce on the bottom.

From Reuters ● Mar. 13, 2023

Only a generation ago, some gardener-critics thought them lacking in elegance and refinement, too conspicuous in their flounce.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2022

Rose tends to flounce through every moment of her life as though giving a command performance.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022

The Hollywood Reporter's Robyn Bahr agreed that "the flounce and fizziness of the original series are largely absent from this moodier and more self-serious one".

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2021

Anastasia nods with approval as I flounce out to show her.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

After stranding runners in scoring position in each of his first three innings, Miller flexed, fist-pumped and flounced his way off the rubber.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2023

The self-confident Mr Lindner overplayed his hand four years ago, and was accused of shirking responsibility when he flounced out of coalition talks.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2021

A few months later, he quietly crawled back to Twitter and starting posting again, never acknowledging that he had flounced away in righteous indignation.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2021

In vintage footage from Hot Peaches shows, Wilhelmina shimmers in flounced white sateen as “drag queen superstar Belladella Bosom”, purring “I’m not a woman, I’m not a man, it’s my own game”.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2020

Six señoritas in long, fitted dresses with flaring skirts and castanets in their hands flounced onto the stage.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Manuel Puig’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is perhaps best known in the U.S. as the film that won William Hurt an Oscar for flouncing around a prison cell in a kimono.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

Nemec recognizes this, to some degree, by only mentioning a central figure from the anime who is basically a flailing, flouncing mess of childish squeaks and quirks.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2021

"Rather than flouncing off", said Mr Hussain, the judge showed humour and "embraced" the fluffy intruder.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2021

The girl was timid with strangers, but exuberant at home – playing practical jokes, haranguing her parents with mock political speeches or flouncing around in her ballet costumes.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2016

There was the teasing and impossible desire to imitate the petty pride of sparrows wallowing and flouncing in the red dust of country roads.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright