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Great Expectations vocabulary
19 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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flounce
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synonyms: furbelow, falbala ???
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Definition:a pleated strip of material used for trimming; frill, ruffle
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A young Jewess in a brown gown with flounces led a horse into the yard to drink.
Anton Chekhov. The Witch and other stories
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And it had become a sort of game among them to sit a close as possible to their aunt, to touch her, hold her little hand, kiss it, play with her ring, or even touch the flounce of her skirt.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Mrs. Joe put clean white curtains up, and tacked a new flowered flounce across the wide chimney to replace the old one,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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