beflounced
See also: be-flounced
English
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[edit]beflounced (comparative more beflounced, superlative most beflounced)
- decorated with flounces
- 1861, Charles Reade, chapter 58, in The Cloister and the Hearth:
- [T]he horse was the vainer brute of the two; he was far worse beflounced, bebonneted, and bemantled, than any fair lady.
- 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse:
- They found Mr. Nash and his friends in the small beflounced drawing-room of the old actress, who, as they learned, had sent in a request for ten minutes' grace, having been detained at a lesson.