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)

Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}

(label) Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.