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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
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


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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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