flamboyant
adjective
strikingly bold or brilliant; showy.
flamboyancy
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a word derived from
flamboyant.
Example Sentences
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Announcing him as the winner, Wallace praised "the technical skill, ambition and flamboyancy" of his cooking.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2020
Murray’s best columns usually dealt with some measure of flamboyancy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2020
Nor has his flamboyancy, in style and being.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 4, 2018
Of a piece with his musical collaborations on and off the runway, the display was a calculated provocation, in tune, as Mr. Oliver likes to say, with “the language of flamboyancy, the language of exaggeration.”
From New York Times ● May 11, 2016
The new building was not begun until the year 1523, an exceedingly late date in cathedral-building,—a time when the great art was slowly dying down, and, in northern countries, flickering in its last flamboyancy.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
