flounce
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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
In the Bourse de la Commence, a finely tailored business-like jacket filed by above a gray skirt with a flounce cut on the bias.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
In photo shoots, they wore outfits with a Baroque flounce: blazers and ruffled shirts, ascots and sleeve garters.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2020
One morning, their mother asked Nelson to wear her loveliest dress, a dark frock with a flounce at the bottom, and then piled her and Cook into the landlord’s car while he drove.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2020
She is tucked into a pretty blue frock with a big flounce in the back.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
In fact, he was in one of the studios and we were in another studio the night that he flounced out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
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
He finally flounced out of the room with her looking daggers in his back.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2020
Katie flounced through the living room and out the front door, which slammed shut with a thunderous bang behind her.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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
But some palace lackey had erred; the vehicle was too cramped for a tall flouncing lassie and her frock.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2017
Blue dress flouncing, a couple of hundred strands of pearls draped around her, an ivory cane that she didn’t really need.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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