flounce
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For fall, diaphanous tiers of 1970s flounce in almost angelically light hues defined the show’s aesthetic inside a brutalist warehouse space.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
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
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
She shrugged and walked over to my couch, where she sat down in a flounce of her retro circle skirt, putting her wedge-clad feet on my coffee table.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
While she spoke animatedly from a green room couch, Day’s bubblegum pink off-shoulder tee and baggy white pants repeatedly flounced out and then resettled in new shapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
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
Laleh flounced onto the couch on Dad’s other side and tucked her feet underneath her butt, disturbing the gravitational fields on the couch so Dad leaned away from me and toward her.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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
"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
Some scenes seem like throwaways — especially the ridiculous role-playing round, with Flo flouncing around in a flowing bodice-trussed gown and wanting to be whisked up the stairs like Scarlett.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2014
There was no pivotal moment of creative difference, no storming or flouncing out.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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