Frounce vs Rounce - What's the difference?
frounce | rounce |
(rare) To curl.
* 1879 , Harmon Seeley Babcock, "The Peanut Man", in Trifles , Providence Press Company (1879),
* 1887 , Julian Corbett, For God and Gold , Macmillan and Co (1887),
* 1888 , Charles M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta , Volume 1, Cambridge (1888),
* 1983 , Carolly Erickson, The First Elizabeth , St. Martin's Griffin (1997), ISBN 9780312168421,
* 2012 , Carolyn Meyer, The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots , Harcourt (2012), ISBN 9780152061883,
(rare) To crease, wrinkle, to frown.
* 1871 , George Mac-Henry, Time and Eternity: A Poem , A L Bancroft and Company (1871),
* 1885 , "
* 2000 , Patrick Madden, "
To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress.
(printing) The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again.
(printing) The whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between frounce and rounce
is that frounce is a canker in the mouth of a hawk while rounce is the handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again.As a verb frounce
is to curl.frounce
English
Verb
page 43:
- Beard untrimmed by barber's shears,
- Hair all frouncing 'bout his ears,
page 214:
- As though to give him a warlike note, his clothes were thrown on in a slovenly way, and his moustache frounced out so shock and bristling that it seemed from each hair-end a crackling oath must start with every word he said.
page 498:
- Under the day-long beating of the sun their brow is frounced out,
page 307:
- The unruly, shoulder-length hair of the redeemed made a strong contrast to the well-tended coiffures of fashionable men, who "frounced their hair with curling irons" and wore long "love locks" tied with ribbons or silk favors.
page 107:
- My hairdresser stopped coming. Fortunately, my friend Seton had always enjoyed frouncing my hair, and she readily took up the responsibility, fixing my hair in a different style every day.
page 42:
- He frounced his brow, and from his scornful eye
- Shot wrath indignant, and disdain and pride,
The Old Corner Shop: A Story of Very Poor Humanity", The Phrenological Magazine , December 1885:
- Mury, however, frounced her brows, and made Sir Tyke Winchap's niece a profound courtesy behind her back.
Down on Batlle's Farm", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought , Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 2000, page 160:
- "But they know who you are?" I asked, and frounced my brow in skeptical doubt.