Flaunt vs Expose - What's the difference?
flaunt | expose |
(obsolete) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
To parade, display with ostentation.
(intransitive, archaic, or, literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.
* Arbuthnot
* Alexander Pope
* 1856 , ,
* 1897 , ,
As a verb flaunt
is (obsolete) to wave or flutter smartly in the wind.As a noun expose is
.flaunt
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- She's always flaunting her designer clothes.
- You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
- One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.
- [T]he younger belles had begun to flaunt in the French fashions of flimsy muslins, shortwaisted— narrow-skirted.
- … and Mrs. Wix seemed to flaunt there in her finery.