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  • As Agnes rose with graceful ease to meet them, looking so lovely in her deep mourning dress, and with her rich waving chesnut hair, simply parted on her forehead, and gathered in a knot behind, there was a most striking contrast between her and the gaudily dressed, beflounced, and beflowered ladies, who were fashionably and formally curtseying, and presenting her the tips of their fingers.

    Lewie Or, The Bended Twig

  • She was, as usual, a marvel of beflounced silk, false curls, rouge, and pearl powder.

    Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Lawrence L. Lynch

  • There entered, in a beribboned and beflounced tea gown, a pretty, if rather ordinary, woman of forty, with a petulant baby face.

    Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Various

  • A coat-sleeve of lace, crêpe, or chiffon, beflounced at the wrist, may be inserted under the short satin sleeves when the occasion does not require gloves.

    What Dress Makes of Us Dorothy Quigley

  • She stood her ground, and Shima delivered the missive as if it were most usual to find one's mistress beflounced in peignoir and petticoats, hanging breathless over the baluster.

    The Coast of Chance Esther Chamberlain

  • Patty's suggestion of a simple white lawn that reposed upon the very bottom of the trunk was overruled in favor of a betucked and beflounced creation of red calico in which Ma Watts had beamed upon the gay panoply of the long remembered "circust."

    The Gold Girl 1921

  • It came up to him, and directly it touched his naked skin he knew it was a woman -- a woman with a much-beflounced silk skirt and silk petticoats -- a woman whose person was perfumed with violets (a scent for which the Captain had a particular weakness), and without doubt, loaded with jewellery.

    Scottish Ghost Stories Elliott O'Donnell 1918

  • For the rest she wore a pink petticoat, very extravagantly beflounced, and a pink corsage cut extravagantly low.

    The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • They would have liked to cast those painted fans and lace frills and beflounced lingerie into the fire as if they had been infected rags from a pest-house.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 1908

  • Lady Kirke, bejewelled and befrilled and beflounced till I had thought no mortal might bend in such massive casings of starch.

    Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903

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