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Meanings of ostentation in English

Portuguese
fausto
Catalan
grandiloqüència

Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.

      fausto
      Catalan
      fanfàrria

      A gaudy and proud outward display.

            fanfàrria
            Usage of ostentation in English
            1
            Again, it suggests the characteristic absence of all ostentation in His works.
            Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
            2
            For there is nothing like ostentation or conceit of intellect in Portia.
            Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. / With An ...
            3
            Expensive equipages, making a show and ostentation of figure in the world.
            The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)
            4
            For he carefully avoided ostentation, and preferred doing his good in secret.
            Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
            5
            He took pleasure in giving generously, but always judiciously and without ostentation.
            Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
            6
            I was going into the dark and I was not afraid-withostentation.
            Certain Personal Matters
            7
            After an extraordinary display of ostentation, Longchamp was ousted in his turn.
            Windsor Castle
            8
            But Wolsey carried the matter much further than vain pomp and ostentation.
            The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part C. / From...
            9
            He lives simply, however, and detests and shuns personal notoriety or ostentation.
            Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati...
            10
            He did it with great ostentation, glancing significantly at me the while.
            The Sea-Wolf
            11
            It was not ostentation but merit, that won him the supreme command.
            Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
            12
            My feelings are not those of pride or ostentation, upon the occasion.
            Brave Men and Women: Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs
            13
            The East repelled me by its pomp, its ostentation, and its impostures.
            Recollections of My Youth
            14
            For myself, I must say that I like absence of all ostentation.
            Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales
            15
            She carried her later elevation to high rank without pride or ostentation.
            Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
            16
            I must give you an instance of his generosity, or rather ostentation.
            The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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            Portuguese
            fausto
            Ostentation through the time
            Ostentation across language varieties
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