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Meanings of flamboyant in English
Portuguese
delonix regia 
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.
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Examples for "florid"
Examples for "florid"
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The really dreadful ones clap after a particular florid passage of music.
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Such activities were more in line with florid, excitable countries like Italy.
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Sembrich made inevitable the operas of the florid Italian school, and Mme.
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Our Mr Swann is also given to florid outbursts of baroque vulgarity.
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Darker grew his florid countenance; his bulging eyes looked troubled and perplexed.
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Her weeping voice melted in the melancholy sobbing of the aureate sea.
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The beautiful hair had no one of its aureate threads out of place.
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He pointed to the aureate dome wherein sat the Three-andthen I saw!
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Centhwevir moved his head, regarded him with those molten aureate eyes.
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From them came the gem fires piercing the aureate mists.
Usage of flamboyant in English
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Her mannerly, down-home approach undoubtedly smoothed the way for the flamboyant Capote.
2
Attacking football, built on good passing and movement, laced with flamboyant touches.
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Where fashion patois shines, however, is in the flamboyant expression of sensibility.
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In every detail he was an advanced dresser, specializing in flamboyant cravats.
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The days of loud colors and of the flamboyant life are past.
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Here Otāré described a flamboyant curve in the air with his finger.
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The flamboyant music connoisseur steered his work through his love of music.
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Here are five reasons not to fear the flamboyant, but embrace it.
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Eisenstein uses garish color and flamboyant action to show Ivan's increasing derangement.
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Do the inmates sense a kindred though more flamboyant spirit in Adam?
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Her eyes were a tawny brown; her hair a flamboyant auburn mop.
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But Tony Dye is a flamboyant character in one respect at least.
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Lawyers for the flamboyant entrepreneur say the company simply offered online storage.
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One thing that Pakistan has not lacked is flamboyant advice from outsiders.
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A multitude of violent, flamboyant phrases assist to the excitement of fever.
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Grayson Perry is a flamboyant concoction of many things, not least, satire.
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Translations for flamboyant
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Flamboyant through the time
Flamboyant across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common