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Flamboyant

Flamboyant Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Flamboyant? [n] 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 [adj] richly and brilliantly colorful [adj] elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Flamboyant: aureate \| colorful \| Delonix regia \| fancy \| flame tree \| florid \| peacock flower \| Poinciana regia \| resplendent \| royal poinciana \| showy \| unrestrained Related Terms \| Find terms related to Flamboyant: affected \| arabesque \| baroque \| bedazzling \| bedizened \| big-sounding \| blinding \| bright \| bright and shining \| brilliant \| busy \| chichi \| convoluted \| dashing \| dazzling \| declamatory \| decorated \| effulgent \| elaborate \| elegant \| elevated \| embellished \| euphuistic \| extravagant \| fancy \| fine \| flaming \| flashy \| flaunting \| florid \| flowery \| frilly \| fulgent \| fulgid \| fulsome \| fussy \| garish \| gaudy \| glaring \| glary \| Gongoresque \| grandiloquent \| grandiose \| grandisonant \| high \| highfalutin \| high-flowing \| high-flown \| high-flying \| high-sounding \| high-wrought \| inkhorn \| jaunty \| Johnsonian \| labored \| labyrinthine \| lexiphanic \| lofty \| lurid \| luscious \| luxuriant \| luxurious \| magniloquent \| meretricious \| moresque \| ornamented \| ornate \| orotund \| ostentatious \| overdone \| overelaborate \| overelegant \| overinvolved \| overlabored \| overworked \| overwrought \| peacockish \| peacocky \| pedantic \| picturesque \| pompous \| pretentious \| pretty-pretty \| rakish \| refulgent \| resplendent \| rhetorical \| rich \| rococo \| sensational \| sensationalistic \| sententious \| showy \| sonorous \| splashy \| splendent \| splendid \| splendorous \| stilted \| swank \| swashbuckling \| tall \| tortuous \| vivid \| wide See Also \| angiospermous tree \| Delonix \| flowering tree \| genus Delonix Flamboyant In Webster's Dictionary \Flam*boy"ant\, a. [F.] (Arch.) Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

Flamboyant Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Flamboyant?

[n] 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
[adj] richly and brilliantly colorful
[adj] elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

See Also | angiospermous tree | Delonix | flowering tree | genus Delonix

Flamboyant In Webster's Dictionary

\Flam*boy"ant\, a. [F.] (Arch.)
Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the
tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century)
French Gothic style.

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