LekhoriLekhoriShowy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, style, etc.; ostentatious.
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.
Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree from Madagascar.
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.
Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), participle of flamboyer (“to flame”), from Old French flamboier, from flambe (“flame”). The architectural style derives its name from the flame-like ...
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S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.
Alternative letter-case form of flamboyant.