Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of beflounced.
[…]be-ringleted and be-flounced à la vigeur, of those elegant publications—feathers waving, ribbons floating, brown gowns vandyked with orange, and scarlet trimmed with sky blue, &c. &c.
1830 January 14, Caledonian Mercury, number 16,911, Edinburgh, column 42 more examples
The gown of rich brocade, or of rustling silk, flowed out in many a yard of train, and be-flounced and be-furbelowed in all directions, the lofty pile of head-gear towering over the brow of the beautiful, the delicate and gorgeous colored skirt, ruffles bristling round the neck, and the demure cap, form a picture of graceful drapery, moving those of unfortunately recent date, to mourn for departed taste.
1827 February 8, “Ancient Attire and Modern Manners”, in The Repertory, volume VI, number 14 (whole 274), St. Albans, Vt., column 5[…]and Frank was already quite ashamed of his suspicions, and beginning to discard them as entirely unfounded, when again the door was thrown open, and, accompanied by her husband—overdressed, be-flounced, be-ringletted, and panting from the recent labours of the toilet—the real fugitive made her appearance in the portly person of Gertrude’s stepmother, the second Mrs Blake.
1846 July 18, “Slips of the Tongue”, in Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, number 133, Edinburgh, page 38, column 1
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