Topic: CLOTHES
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| Date: | 1700-1800 |
| Origin: | frounce 'fold, plait' (14-19 centuries) (influenced by FLOUNCE1), from Old French fronce |
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flounce2
1DCC [countable] a band of cloth that is stitched onto a curtain or a piece of clothing in folds as a decoration : 
a group of local girls dressed in frills and flounces
a group of local girls dressed in frills and flounces2 [singular] a way of walking in a quick determined way without looking at people, because you are angry : She walked off with a flounce.
She walked off with a flounce.