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Definition of Frounced
1. frounce [v] - See also: frounce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frounced
Literary usage of Frounced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics by Francis Turner Palgrave (1904)
"... and frounced : literally, ' adorned with fine clothes and ... frounced': the
word originally meant ' to wrinkle the brow,' and there is an old French ..."
2. The Plays of Aeschylus by Aeschylus (1892)
"Barbaric though my voice and rude, Well may its notes be understood ; Barbaric
though this purfled stole, frounced around with linen roll, This blushing ..."
3. The Children's Treasury of English Song by Francis Turner Palgrave (1875)
"120 Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career, Till civil-suited Morn appear,
Not trick'd and frounced as she was wont With the Attic Boy to hunt, ..."
4. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1868)
"... Night, oft eee me in thy pale career, Not tricked and frounced (43) at ehe wae
... from which sense the more degenerate meaning deceive comes ; frounced ..."
5. Notes to Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs & Lyrics. Books I-IV. by John Henry Fowler (1904)
"123. tricked and frounced : literally, ' adorned with fine clothes and having
... frounced': the word originally meant ' to wrinkle the brow,1 and there is ..."
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