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Scarlet vs Flamboyant - What's the difference?

scarlet | flamboyant |

As a proper noun scarlet

is , a modern variant of scarlett, or from the common noun scarlet.

As an adjective flamboyant is

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

As a noun flamboyant is

a showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (delonix regia ).

scarlet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A bright red, slightly orange colour.
  • Cloth of a scarlet color.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 21
    • All her household are clothed with scarlet .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a bright red colour.
  • *
  • *:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
  • Sinful or whorish.
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    • Derived terms

    * scarlatina * scarlet-collar * scarlet fever * scarlet hat * scarlet ibis * scarlet letter * scarlet pimpernel * scarlet runner * scarlet tanager * scarlet woman

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dye or tinge with scarlet.
  • * Ford
    • The ashy paleness of my cheek / Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath.

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    flamboyant

    English

    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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (Delonix regia )
  • * 1919 ,
    • The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants , scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.