See flounce on Wiktionary
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"text": "To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.",
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"ref": "1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses:",
"text": "With his broad fins and forky tail he laves / The rising surge, and flounces in the waves.",
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"To decorate with a flounce."
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"(sewing) To decorate with a flounce."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hvǎrljam se",
"sense": "to move in exaggerated manner",
"word": "хвърлям се"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vturvam se",
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"word": "втурвам се"
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"word": "mašírovat"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move in exaggerated manner",
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move in exaggerated manner",
"word": "stolzieren"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to move in exaggerated manner",
"word": "rimbalzare"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to move in exaggerated manner",
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ukrasjavam s volani",
"sense": "to decorate with flounce",
"word": "украсявам с волани"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to decorate with flounce",
"word": "koristella röyhelöin"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to decorate with flounce",
"word": "röyhelöidä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to decorate with flounce",
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to decorate with flounce",
"word": "guarnire"
},
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to decorate with flounce",
"word": "ukrasiti volanima"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to depart dramatically",
"word": "poistua näyttävästi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to depart dramatically",
"word": "sännätä tiehensä"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to depart dramatically",
"word": "otperjati"
}
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"ref": "1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:",
"text": "Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.",
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"The act of flouncing."
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"ref": "2008, David Attenborough, Life in Cold Blood, section 252:",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "volan",
"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "волан"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanýr"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "volán"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "volant"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
"word": "röyhelö (pleated)"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
"word": "reunus"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "volant"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "volant"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balza"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gala"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
"word": "karner"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "strip of decorative material along an edge",
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"word": "volang"
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"code": "fi",
"english": "going",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of flouncing",
"word": "harppominen"
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"code": "fi",
"english": "decorating",
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"sense": "act of flouncing",
"word": "röyhelöinti"
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"word": "flounce"
}
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