| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  flouns |
| NOUN: | A strip of decorative, usually gathered or pleated material attached by one edge, as on a garment or curtain. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: flounced, flounc·ing, flounc·es
To trim with a strip or strips of gathered or pleated material. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Alteration of frounce, from Middle English, pleat, from Old French fronce, of Germanic origin. See sker-2 in Appendix I.
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