Decorated with flounces (strips of fabric trim), or moved with exaggerated bouncy motions.
Past tense and past participle of 'flounce,' combining the root 'flounce' with the '-ed' suffix. Used as an adjective to describe garments with flounces or movements made with exaggeration.
Victorian dresses were heavily flounced—sometimes with 5 or 6 ruffled layers—and they made it physically impossible to move without that signature bouncy flouncing motion, so the clothes and the movement became inseparably linked.
Inherits gendered coding from flounce; past-tense usage often dismisses agency (esp. women) as overwrought or melodramatic.
Describe the action neutrally; avoid pairing with character judgments. Note: flounced fabric trim is gender-neutral.
["moved with emphasis","exited expressively"]
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