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flamboyance

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flam·boy·ant  (flm-boint)
adj.
1. Highly elaborate; ornate.
2. Richly colored; resplendent.
3. Architecture Of, relating to, or having wavy lines and flamelike forms characteristic of 15th- and 16th-century French Gothic architecture.
4. Given to ostentatious or audacious display. See Synonyms at showy.

[French, from Old French, present participle of flamboyer, to blaze, from flambe, flame; see flame.]

flam·boyance, flam·boyan·cy n.
flam·boyant·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.flamboyance - extravagant elaborateness; "he wrote with great flamboyance"
elaborateness, ornateness - an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated

flamboyance
noun showiness, show, style, dash, sparkle, chic, flair, verve, swagger, extravagance, panache, pomp, glitz (informal), élan, bravura, swank (informal), theatricality, exhibitionism, brio, ostentation, stylishness, flashiness, flamboyancy, floridity, pizzazz or pizazz (informal) He was his usual mixture of flamboyance and flair.
restraint, simplicity, dullness, flatness, drabness, unobtrusiveness
Translations
flamboyance [flæmˈbɔɪəns] N [of person, behaviour] → extravagancia f; [of clothes, colour] → vistosidad f, lo llamativo
flamboyance [flæmˈbɔɪəns] nextravagance f
flamboyance
nExtravaganz f; (of lifestyle also)Üppigkeit f
flamboyance [flæmˈbɔɪəns] n (of person, style) → stravaganza
flamboyance [flæmˈbɔɪəns] n (of person, style) → stravaganza


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His flamboyance was extinguished; and in neat, commonplace, shabby clothes he hurried, a subdued, unassuming little man, through the departments as though anxious to escape notice.
 
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