Meanings
nounflounciness (plural flouncinesses)
plural flouncinesses
- The state or quality of being flouncy
The ostrich can loosen the feathers to help dissipate body heat or draw them close to conserve it. That flounciness is also the quality that has caused human fashion to repeatedly fall in and out of love with ostrich feathers.
2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine
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