Adjective

(en adjective)

Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.

* 1902 , ,

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 , , 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, ,

The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.

(architecture) Referred to as the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.

* 1891 , , Chapter XIX: Avignon,

S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.

* 1911 , ,

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 , ,

The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Producing a surplus; profitable.

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