Adjective

(en adjective)

Of, or relating to actors or acting.

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Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.

* 1848 , , Oliver Goldsmith'' (review of John Forster, ''Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith''), ''The North British Review , Volume 9: May—August, page 208,

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* 1990 , , The Great Terror: A Reassessment , 2008, page 414,

Trotsky's vanity, unlike Stalin's, was, practically speaking, frivolous. There was something more histrionic about it. He had shown himself no less ruthless than Stalin. Indeed, at the time of the Civil War, he had ordered executions on a greater scale than Stalin or anyone else.

* 2009 , Peter Bondanella, A History of Italian Cinema , page 220,

This lens (known as a carello ottico'' in Italian and a ''travelling optique'' in French) is used sparingly but effectively in ''General Della Rovere during the important bombardment scene inside the prison, which introduces De Sica's most histrionic speech.

* 2010 , Joan Lachkar, How to Talk to a Borderline , page 124,

So, as he keeps her endlessly frustrated, she becomes more histrionic ; and as she projects her emotional, “dirty” parts onto him, he becomes more anal and compulsive.

* 2011 , Neel Burton, Psychiatry , page 138,

A vicious circle may form in which the more rejected they feel the more histrionic' they become, and the more ' histrionic they become the more rejected they feel.

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.