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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flamboyant \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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flamboyant
       adj 1: elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant
              handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: {aureate},
               {florid}, {showy}]
       2: richly and brilliantly colorful [syn: {resplendent}, {unrestrained}]
       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 [syn: {royal poinciana}, {flame tree}, {peacock
           flower}, {Delonix regia}, {Poinciana regia}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "flamboyant":
     Gongoresque, Johnsonian, 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, grandiloquent, grandiose,
     grandisonant, high, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying,
     high-sounding, high-wrought, highfalutin, inkhorn, jaunty, 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
  
  

















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