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flamboyant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, poinciana regia, royal poinciana |
| Type of | flowering tree, angiospermous tree |
Examples of flamboyant
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The so-called Rally Thong is just the most flamboyant symbol of the 2010 Giants.
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All were muscular, clean, not flamboyant or over-emotive, but full of character.
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England winger Chris Ashton with his trademark flamboyant dive for the try line.
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A flamboyant race car-driving businessman or the secretary of state for defence?
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It included a flamboyant 2p cut in the main rates of income and corporation tax.
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Or do they display their fortune through flamboyant displays of wanton spending?
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The flamboyant nature of these crimes is like a neon sign pointing to the truth.
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Eric Mohat was flamboyant and loud and preferred to wear pink most of the time.
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That is about to change, according to the world's most flamboyant Egyptologist.
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- Marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad"
- Royal poinciana: showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
- Aureate: elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"
- (flamboyantly) in a fancy colorful manner; "he dresses rather flamboyantly"
- Flamboyant (from French flamboyant, "flaming") is the name given to a florid style of late Gothic architecture in vogue in France, Spain and Portugal during the 15th century; the equivalent period in English architecture is called Perpendicular, and in Germany the Sondergotik. ...
- "Flamboyant" is a single by Pet Shop Boys, released in 2004. It was the second single and one of two new songs from their 2003 singles compilation, ''''.
- A showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (Delonix regia); Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc; Referred to as the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries
- Any design dominated by flamelike, curvilinear rhythms. In architecture, having complex, flamelike forms characteristic of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Gothic style.
- Flame like, applied to aspects of the Late Gothic Style, particularly tracery.
