beflounced

See also: be-flounced

English

Alternative forms

• be-flounced

Etymology

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.

   • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse:

     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.