Flaunting

2 definitions found

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

  Flaunt \Flaunt\ (fl[aum]nt or fl[add]nt; 277), v. i. [imp. & p.
     p. {Flaunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.. {Flaunting}.] [Cf. dial. G.
     flandern to flutter, wave; perh. akin to E. flatter,
     flutter.]
     To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously;
     as, a flaunting show.


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           You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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           One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. --Pope.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  128 Moby Thesaurus words for "flaunting":
     Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, bedizened, big-sounding,
     blatant, blazon, blinding, brandish, brandishing, brave, bravura,
     braw, brazen, brazenfaced, brilliancy, chichi, colorful,
     convoluted, crude, daring, dash, dashing, declamatory,
     demonstration, display, dramatics, dressy, eclat, elevated,
     etalage, euphuistic, exhibition, exhibitionism, exhibitionistic,
     extravagant, false front, fanfaronade, figure, flagrant, flair,
     flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, flaunt, flourish,
     flourishing, frilly, frothy, fulsome, gallant, garish, gaudy, gay,
     glaring, glittering, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose,
     grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding,
     highfalutin, histrionics, inkhorn, jaunty, jazzy, labyrinthine,
     lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid, magniloquent, manifestation,
     meretricious, obtrusive, orotund, ostentatious, overbright,
     overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pageant,
     pageantry, parade, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rakish, raw,
     rhetorical, screaming, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious,
     shaking, sham, shameless, show, showing-off, showy, shrieking,
     snazzy, sonorous, spectacle, spectacular, splash, splashy, splurge,
     splurgy, sporty, staginess, stilted, tall, tawdry, theatrics,
     tortuous, undulation, vaunt, vulgar, wave, wave motion, waving