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

Come, I will show you now my newest hat, And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink.

From American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Various

And Polly ran into her own room, to prink also, fearing that her friend might be ashamed of her plain costume.

From An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May

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

He will prink; and he will be at his best after sunset.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch