Flamboyant

[flæm'bɒɪənt] or [flæm'bɔɪənt]

Definition

(adj.) marked by ostentation but often tasteless; 'a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet'; 'a splashy half-page ad' .

Editor: Pratt--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) 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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Definition

adj. of the latest style of Gothic architecture which prevailed in France in the 15th and 16th centuries corresponding to the Perpendicular in England—from the flame-like forms of the tracery of the windows &c.: of wavy form: gorgeously coloured.

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