frouncing

Verb

frounce (third-person singular simple present frounces, present participle frouncing, simple past and past participle frounced)

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To curl.
   • Beard untrimmed by barber's shears,
     Hair all frouncing 'bout his ears,1879, Harmon Seeley Babcock, "The Peanut Man", in Trifles, Providence Press Company (1879), page 43
2. (rare) To crease, wrinkle, to frown.
   • He frounced his brow, and from his scornful eye
     Shot wrath indignant, and disdain and pride,1871, George Mac-Henry, Time and Eternity: A Poem, A L Bancroft and Company (1871), page 42
3. To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress.

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