flounce

Ana de Armas, best actress nominee for "Blonde," wore a silver column dress with a flamenco dancer-like flounce on the bottom.

From Reuters ● Mar. 13, 2023

Only a generation ago, some gardener-critics thought them lacking in elegance and refinement, too conspicuous in their flounce.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2022

Rose tends to flounce through every moment of her life as though giving a command performance.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022

The Hollywood Reporter's Robyn Bahr agreed that "the flounce and fizziness of the original series are largely absent from this moodier and more self-serious one".

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2021

She shrugged and walked over to my couch, where she sat down in a flounce of her retro circle skirt, putting her wedge-clad feet on my coffee table.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

After stranding runners in scoring position in each of his first three innings, Miller flexed, fist-pumped and flounced his way off the rubber.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2023

The self-confident Mr Lindner overplayed his hand four years ago, and was accused of shirking responsibility when he flounced out of coalition talks.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2021

A few months later, he quietly crawled back to Twitter and starting posting again, never acknowledging that he had flounced away in righteous indignation.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2021

Goldwater girls, dressed in sombreros and tasseled boots, flounced around while California delegates holding helium-filled, gold-colored balloons waved a large Bear Flag.

From Slate ● May 12, 2016

In one corner of the room was a dressing table with a blue- and-white-striped skirt flounced around it.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

Manuel Puig’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is perhaps best known in the U.S. as the film that won William Hurt an Oscar for flouncing around a prison cell in a kimono.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

The team are still confident there will be no flouncing.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2017

To the couple's relief, the woman eventually backed down, merely flouncing out with the guitar before disappearing in a blue Jaguar.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2013

Think of all of the New Romantic bands flouncing around in early MTV promos, the Gulf hotels that still resemble cheap neo-classical temples and that pesky lemon squeezer.

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2011

“How would you know?” said Dovie, flouncing by.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly