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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
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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