Flounces vs Ruffles – What’s the difference?

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Flounces vs Ruffles - What's the difference?
As verbs the difference between flounces and ruffles is that flounces is (flounce) while ruffles is (ruffle). As a noun ruffles is .

flounces

English

Verb

(head)

  • (flounce)


    • flounce

    English

    Verb

    (flounc)

  • To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
  • (archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
  • * Barrow
    • To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.
  • * Addison
    • With his broad fins and forky tail he laves / The rising surge, and flounces in the waves.
  • To decorate with a flounce.
  • To leave a group dramatically, in a way that draws attention to oneself.
    • After failing to win the leadership election, he flounced dramatically.
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    • Noun

    (en noun )

  • (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.(w)
  • *
    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces , lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
  • The act of flouncing.

    • Derived terms

    * flouncy

    ruffles

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)

  • (ruffle)

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