prink

Example Sentences

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The friends had a social "cup o' tea" upstairs, which Polly considered the height of luxury, and then each took a mirror and proceeded to prink to her heart's content.

From An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May

Play your part, poor pretty doll; Feast and frolic, pose and prink; There's the Morgue to end it all, And it's later than you think.

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

Getting so you fuss if you have square-topped hairpins instead of round, and letting milliners sell you any sort of hats because you are too busy to prink!

From The Gorgeous Girl by Bartley, Nalbro

I came in here just to remind you to begin to prink before dinner or you’d never be ready.”

From The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks

Doña Ximena had her daughters ready to receive them in full noble garments, for since midnight they had done nothing but prink and prank themselves.

From Chronicle of the Cid by Southey, Robert