flamboyant
adjective
strikingly bold or brilliant; showy.
flamboyance
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a word derived from
flamboyant.
Example Sentences
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"I just love the quicksilver delivery and suave flamboyance of Coward, it's delightful to play."
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
A later generation of sociologists might have diagnosed Göring’s martial flamboyance as a form of “homeovestism”—that is, exaggerated and often impractical gender-normative dress or behavior intended to signal elite social status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Decorative flamboyance or even a sink mounted too high left him dismayed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025
These artists know that flamboyance needn’t preclude subtlety, and that stardom neither guarantees nor bars revelation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
When Marie-Laure got pregnant, they separated peaceably, with no flamboyance.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
