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Flounce vs Valance - What's the difference?

flounce | valance | Synonyms |

Flounce is a synonym of valance.


As nouns the difference between flounce and valance

is that flounce is (sewing) a strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle(w) while valance is short curtain that hangs along the top edge of a window.

As a verb flounce

is to move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.

flounce

English

Verb

(flounc)
  • To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
  • (archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
  • * Barrow
  • To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.
  • * Addison
  • With his broad fins and forky tail he laves / The rising surge, and flounces in the waves.
  • To decorate with a flounce.
  • To leave a group dramatically, in a way that draws attention to oneself.
  • After failing to win the leadership election, he flounced dramatically.
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  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.(w)
  • *
  • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces , lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
  • The act of flouncing.
  • Derived terms

    * flouncy

    valance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * valaunce (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Short curtain that hangs along the top edge of a window.
  • A decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism and so on at the top of a window.
  • (bedding) A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from the mattress to the floor.
  • The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk, which covers the joint when the lid is closed.
  • Synonyms

    * (bedding) dust ruffle