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 (flout)
tr.v. flout·ed, flout·ing, flouts
1. To ignore or disregard (a rule or convention, for example) in an open or defiant way: flout a law; behavior that flouted convention. See Usage Note at flaunt.
2. Archaic To express contempt for; mock or jeer at.
[Perhaps from Middle English flouten, to play the flute, from Old French flauter, from flaute, flute; see flute.]
flout′er n.
flout′ing·ly adv.
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liefer will it [her love for her daughter] floutingly devise, Using a favourite jester's mimic pique, Prompt, idle by-names with their sense to seek, And takes for language laughing ironies.
"Telling what's o' er": remaking the sonnet cycle in Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter
Instead, mother and daughter develop a communication system that harks back to the pre-linguistic realm of the semiotic, and that consists of mimicry, nonsense, and laughter, rather than full-fledged sentences: (39) But liefer will it floutingly devise, Using a favourite jester's mimic pique, Prompt, idle, by-names with their sense to seek, And takes for language laughing ironies.
Metaphor and maternity: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's House of Life and Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter

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