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1. (adj.) flamboyant
strikingly bold or brilliant; showy:
flamboyant clothes.
2. flamboyant
extravagantly dashing and colorful:
flamboyant behavior.
3. flamboyant
florid; ornate; elaborately styled.
4. flamboyant
(often cap.)
5. flamboyant
(in architecture) having the flamelike form of an ogee, as tracery.
6. flamboyant
of or designating French Gothic architecture of the late 14th to mid-16th centuries, characterized by wavy, flamelike tracery and intricate detailing.
Etymology: (1825–35; < F, prp. of flamboyer to flame, flair)
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1. (adj) royal poinciana, flamboyant, flame tree, peacock flower, Delonix regia, Poinciana regia
showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
2. (adj) flamboyant, showy, splashy
marked by ostentation but often tasteless
"a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad"
3. (adj) aureate, florid, flamboyant
elaborately or excessively ornamented
"flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"
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1. (adj) flamboyant
characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style
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1. flamboyant
the name given, from the flame-like windings of its tracery, to a florid style of architecture in vogue in France during the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Sense: intended to attract notice
flamboyant clothes.
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 Afrikaans: flambojant; swierig |
 Arabic: مُبُهْرَج، زاهٍ، لافِت لل |
 Bulgarian: пищен |
 Brazilian: vistoso |
 Czech: nádherný, okázalý |
 German: pompös |
 Danish: prangende |
 Greek: φανταχτερός |
 Spanish: extravagante |
 Estonian: toretsev |
 Farsi: پر زرق و برق |
 Finnish: näyttävä |
 French: flamboyant |
 Hebrew: סַסגוֹנִי |
 Hindi: स्वयं की ओर आकर्षित करना, |
 Croatian: nakićen, napadan |
 Hungarian: rikító |
 Indonesian: menarik |
 Icelandic: áberandi |
 Italian: sgargiante |
 Japanese: けばけばしい |
 Korean: 찬란한, 화려한 |
 Lithuanian: ryškus, ekstravagantiškas |
 Latvian: spilgts; uzkrītošs |
 Malay: bersemarak warnanya |
 Dutch: opzichtig |
 Norwegian: fargesprakende, rikt deko |
 Polish: krzykliwy, eksentryczny |
 Persian: پر زرق و برق |
 Pashto: ځلند، پريښند، پړكند، چړكن |
 Portuguese: vistoso |
 Romanian: viu (colorat); emfatic |
 Russian: броский |
 Slovak: nápadný |
 Slovenian: bleščeč |
 Serbian: upadljiv |
 Swedish: praktfull, grann |
 Thai: หรูหรา |
 Turkish: gösterişli |
 Taiwanese: 艷麗的 |
 Ukrainian: барвистий, квітчастий |
 Urdu: بھڑکیلا |
 Vietnamese: chói lọi; loè loẹt |
 Chinese: 艳丽的 |
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