frounce Synonyms

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frounce Meaning

Webster

frounce (v. i.)

To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.

To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.

Webster

frounce (n.)

A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.

An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.

frounce Sentence Examples

  1. The prim and proper maiden founced her lips in disapproval.
  2. The curtains billowed outwards in a theatrical frounce.
  3. The ruffled neckline founced around her delicate shoulders.
  4. The mischievous child's frounce of laughter echoed through the playground.
  5. She couldn't resist a frounce of irritation as she witnessed the blunder.
  6. The dress's layers of lace founced and flowed with every graceful step.
  7. The seamstress carefully stitched a frounce along the hem of the silken gown.
  8. The prima ballerina's frounce of her tutu elicited gasps from the audience.
  9. The cat's whiskers founced playfully as it nuzzled against her leg.
  10. The waves founced and surged against the seawall, creating a rhythmic symphony.

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To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair., To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest di

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The prim and proper maiden founced her lips in disapproval.

The curtains billowed outwards in a theatrical frounce.

The ruffled neckline founced around her delicate shoulders.

The mischievous child's frounce of laughter echoed through the playground.