prink

Example Sentences

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Scant time was given to the godmothers to change their shoes, skirts, and stockings, and to prink.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

"As much a mystery to you as it is to us, how you girls can like to gabble and prink from one week's end to the other," retorted Tom.

From An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May

I came in here just to remind you to begin to prink before dinner or you’d never be ready.”

From The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks

"Law now, mother," said the Captain, "gals must prink afore such times; it's as natural as for hens to dress their feathers afore a thunder-storm."

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Many mourn; many think It is not unattractive to prink Them in sable for heroes.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert