beflounced

See also: be-flounced

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From be- +‎ flounced.

Adjective

beflounced (comparative more beflounced, superlative most beflounced)

  1. decorated with flounces
    • 1861, Charles Reade, chapter 58, in The Cloister and the Hearth:
      [T]he horse was the vainer brute of the two; he was far worse beflounced, bebonneted, and bemantled, than any fair lady.
    • 1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
      They found Mr. Nash and his friends in the small beflounced drawing-room of the old actress, who, as they learned, had sent in a request for ten minutes' grace, having been detained at a lesson.
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