be-flounced

See also: beflounced

English

Adjective

be-flounced (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of beflounced
   • 1827 February 8, “Ancient Attire and Modern Manners”, in The Repertory, volume VI, number 14 (whole 274), St. Albans, Vt., column 5:

     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.

   • 1830 January 14, Caledonian Mercury, number 16,911, Edinburgh, column 4:

     […] 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.

   • 1846 July 18, “Slips of the Tongue”, in Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, number 133, Edinburgh, page 38, column 1:

     […] 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.