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Examples
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Ms. Reese's latest collection included a rich tan shirtdress, an updated striped shift and several flouncey yet versatile blouses.
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Please don't forget to wear one of those floofy, flouncey scarves that you can buy at the MoMA store, and also please don't forget to sneer at everyone.
David Rees: Lynn Forester de Rothschild von Cartier der Wha'? 2008
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It's not that I was wearing reinforced one-piecers with flouncey skirts or anything like that.
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They sat about in black and shiny and flouncey clothing adorned with gimp and beads, eating great quantities of cake, drinking much tea in a stately manner and reverberating remarks.
Tono Bungay 1906
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I don't make professions any more than I make paper flowers or flouncey lampshades-I don't know how.
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I don't make professions any more than I make paper flowers or flouncey lampshades -- I don't know how.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 Henry James 1879
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Now my belief is Machen, a great writer who stylistically was ahead of his times: writing in a way that shouldn’t alienate the modern reader, wasn’t flouncey enough in his prose to be taken seriously.
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I don’t make professions any more than I make paper flowers or flouncey lampshades — I don’t know how.
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