Ostentatious vs Panache - What's the difference?

ostentatious | panache |

As adjectives the difference between ostentatious and panache

is that ostentatious is of ostentation while panache is mixed, variegated.

As a verb panache is

As a noun panache is

shandy (mix of beer and lemonade).

ostentatious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of ostentation.

Intended to attract notice.

Of tawdry display; kitsch.

Synonyms

* (tawdry)

Derived terms

* ostensible * ostensive

References

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panache

English

(wikipedia panache)

Noun

(countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.

* 1896 — , Chapter 4

I had taken the panache from my shako so that it might escape notice, but even with my fine overcoat I feared that sooner or later my uniform would betray me.

(uncountable) Flamboyant, energetic style or action; dash; verve.

* 1894 —

One old gentleman, who was in the habit of reading a Paris newspaper and knew things, chuckled gleefully to everybody that Alcée’s conduct was altogether chic, mais chic. That he had more panache than Boulanger. Well, perhaps he had.

Synonyms

* (ornament on a helmet) hackle, plume, plumage * (flamboyant style) dash, flamboyance, swagger, verve