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flamboyant
[ flam-boi-uhnt ]
adjective
- strikingly bold or brilliant; showy:
flamboyant colors.
- conspicuously dashing and colorful:
the flamboyant idol of international society.
- florid; ornate; elaborately styled:
flamboyant speeches.
- Architecture.
- having the form of an ogee, as a bar of tracery.
- noting or pertaining to French Gothic architecture of the late 15th and early and middle 16th centuries, characterized by the use of flamboyant tracery, intricacy of detailing, virtuosity of workmanship, attenuation of parts, and frequent complication of interior space.
noun
flamboyant
/ flæmˈbɔɪənt /
adjective
- elaborate or extravagant; florid; showy
- rich or brilliant in colour; resplendent
- exuberant or ostentatious
- of, denoting, or relating to the French Gothic style of architecture characterized by flamelike tracery and elaborate carving
noun
- another name for royal poinciana
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Derived Forms
- flamˈboyance, noun
- flamˈboyantly, adverb
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Other Words From
- flam·boyance flam·boyan·cy noun
- flam·boyant·ly adverb
- unflam·boyant adjective
- unflam·boyant·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of flamboyant1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of flamboyant1
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Example Sentences
A flamboyant, multi-titled, multiply married royal to remember, the Duchess of Alba died Thursday at the age of 88.
Because when the biggest global demonstration is a broadcaster wearing a flamboyant article of clothing, more must be done.
Air Asia is run by a flamboyant character called Tony Fernandez.
Whether Newark chooses the moderate and measured Jeffries or the fiery and flamboyant Baraka, there is cause for optimism.
The most flamboyant of America's weenies, the Sonoran hot dog, has a murky genealogy.
There also happens to be an excellent cure for pretentious and flamboyant youths who disregard this rule.
Untidy but flamboyant, it is reckless of the laws by which life is lived elsewhere.
His house in the Boulevard des Capucines and his personal attire were equally flamboyant.
At that moment she was more concerned by a fascinating necessity which Barney's flamboyant enterprise entailed.
One side of the nave of that church is Norman, the other Flamboyant, and the two piers 14 and 16 stand opposite each other.
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