flamboyant
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From French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), participle of flamboyer (“to flame”), from Old French flamboier, from flambe (“flame”)
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flamboyant (comparative more flamboyant, superlative most flamboyant)
- Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.
- 1902, G. K. Chesterton, The Optimism of Byron, in Twelve Types,
- When we see some of the monstrous and flamboyant blossoms that enrich the equatorial woods, we do not feel that they are conflagrations of nature; silent explosions of her frightful energy. We simply find it hard to believe that they are not wax flowers grown under a glass case.
- 1920, Frederic Taber Cooper, The Craftsmanship of Writing, Chapter VI: The Question of Clearness,
- But a scorn of flamboyant neckties and checkerboard trousers is no excuse for going to the opposite extreme of a blue flannel shirt and overalls; […] .
- 1962 May 12, Douglas MacArthur, Duty, honor, country,
- The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.
- 1902, G. K. Chesterton, The Optimism of Byron, in Twelve Types,
- (architecture) Referred to as the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
- 1891, Sabine Baring-Gould, In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc, Chapter XIX: Avignon,
- S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.
- 1911, Bruges, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,
- The second is a chapel of two storeys, the lower dating from 1150, while the upper was rebuilt in the 15th century, and there is a rich Flamboyant entrance with a stairway (1533).
- 1913, Abbey of Saint-Ouen, article in Catholic Encyclopedia,
- The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan.
- 1891, Sabine Baring-Gould, In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc, Chapter XIX: Avignon,
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Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.
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Referred to as the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries
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flamboyant (plural flamboyants)
- A showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (Delonix regia)
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tree
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From French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), present participle of flamboyer (“to flame, blaze”).
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flamboyant c. n. (definite and plural flamboyante)
