- a piece of cloth that is sewn around the edge of a skirt, dress, curtain, etc.（衣、裙、窗帘等的）荷叶边
- little girls dressed in frills and flounces穿着荷叶边和荷叶边的小女孩
- [usually singular] (disapproving) a quick and exaggerated movement that you make when you are angry or want people to notice you（因气愤或想引人注意）猛的一动；故作夸张的动作
- She left the room with a flounce.她气冲冲地冲出房间。
Word Originnoun sense 2 mid 16th cent.: perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian flunsa ‘hurry’, or perhaps symbolic, like bounce or pounce. noun sense 1 early 18th cent.: from an alteration of obsolete frounce ‘a fold or pleat’, from Old French fronce, of Germanic origin; related to ruck in the sense ‘ruck something up’.