Definition of Frounce

1. 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.

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

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

Definition of Frounce

1. Noun. A canker in the mouth of a hawk. ¹

2. Verb. to curl ¹

3. Verb. to crease, wrinkle ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frounce

1. to pleat [v FROUNCED, FROUNCING, FROUNCES] - See also: pleat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frounce

frottages
frotted
frotteurist
frotteurists
frotteurs
frotting
frou-frou
frou-frous
froufrou
froufrous
froughier
froughy
frounce (current term)
frounced
frounces
frouncing
froup
froups
froust
frousted
frousting
frousts
frouzier
frouziest
frouzy
frover
frow

Literary usage of Frounce

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"... which in a (hort time caules the frounce, or a perpetual dropping humour, and ot a very difficult cure. 'J he cure : П (he be taken in time, ..."

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