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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flamboyant \Flam*boy"ant\, a. [F.] (Arch.) Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1832, originally in reference to a 15c.-16c. architectural style with wavy, flame-like curves, from French flamboyant "flaming, wavy," present participle of flamboyer "to flame," from Old French flamboiier "to flame, flare, blaze, glow, shine" (12c.), from flambe "a flame, flame of love," from flamble, variant of flamme, from Latin flammula "little flame" (see flame (n.)). Extended sense of "showy, ornate" is from 1879. Related: Flamboyantly.
Wiktionary
a. 1 showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc. 2 (context architecture English) Referred to as the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries. n. A showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana ((taxlink Delonix regia species noshow=1))
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: royal poinciana, flame tree, peacock flower, Delonix regia, Poinciana regia]
adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: aureate, florid, showy]
richly and brilliantly colorful [syn: resplendent, unrestrained]
Wikipedia
Flamboyant (from French flamboyant, "flaming") is the name given to a florid style of late Gothic architecture in vogue in France from about 1350 until it was superseded by Renaissance architecture during the early 16th century, and mainly used in describing French buildings. The term is sometimes used of the early period of English Gothic architecture usually called the Decorated Style; the historian Edward Augustus Freeman proposed this in a work of 1851. A version of the style spread to Spain and Portugal during the 15th century. It evolved from the Rayonnant style and the English Decorated Style and was marked by even greater attention to decoration and the use of double curved tracery. The term was first used by Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777–1837), and like all the terms mentioned in this paragraph except "Sondergotik" describes the style of window tracery, which is much the easiest way of distinguishing within the overall Gothic period, but ignores other aspects of style. In England the later part of the period is known as Perpendicular architecture. In Germany Sondergotik ("Special Gothic") is the more usual term.
The name derives from the flame-like windings of its tracery and the dramatic lengthening of gables and the tops of arches. A key feature is the ogee arch, originating in Beverley Minster, England around 1320, which spread to York and Durham, although the form was never widely used in England, being superseded by the rise of the Perpendicular style around 1350. A possible point of connection between the early English work and the later development in France is the church at Chaumont. The Manueline in Portugal, and the Isabelline in Spain were even more extravagant continuations of the style in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
In the past the Flamboyant style, along with its antecedent Rayonnant, has frequently been disparaged by critics. More recently some have sought to rehabilitate it. William W Clark commented:
The Flamboyant is the most neglected period of Gothic architecture because of the prejudices of past generations; but the neglect of these highly original and inventive architectural fantasies is unwarranted. The time has come to discard old conceptions and look anew at Late Gothic architecture.
"Flamboyant" is a single by Pet Shop Boys, released in 2004. It was the second single and one of two new songs from their 2003 singles compilation, PopArt.
It peaked at #12 in UK.
The B-side is "I didn't get where I am today", which features Johnny Marr on guitars. The single cover art contains the song title and the duo's name in katakana; .
The song is featured in the Level 1 ski film Turbo.
The song was remixed for single release. The original album version features as an extended mix (Tomcraft Extended Mix).
Flamboyant is a style of Gothic architecture.
Flamboyant may also refer to:
- Flamboyant, the common English name of Delonix regia, an ornamental tree
- "Flamboyant" (song), a 2004 song by the Pet Shop Boys
- "Flamboyant" (Big L song), a song by Big L from The Big Picture
- Flamboyant flower beetle or Eudicella gralli, a type of scarab beetle
- Pfeffer's Flamboyant Cuttlefish, a species of cuttlefish
Usage examples of "flamboyant".
She was a dark-skinned Ammonite, her eyelids blackened with kohl, her arms ajingle with crude golden bracelets in the shape of serpents, too many of them, and too noisily jingling, her hair a flamboyant red from the dye of the henna plant.
Wherever the Mafia had grown and prospered since Prohibition, these other savages were there as well, ever clinging to the shadows as the more flamboyant amici filled headlines and mortuaries, lending their advice and financial acumen where it was lacking in their Mafia comrades, Siegel, Buchalter, Cohen, Lansky.
The bloodiest era of the cocaine cowboys seems to be over, and flamboyant enforcers are less in demand.
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His rapt gaze took in the flamboyant spread of food and drink, then moved upward past the bank of flowers to the centerpiece, and he wondered what significance there might be in an unsculptured square pillar of ice.
Luca had not yet donned one of his flamboyant coats, but he made up for it with gestures.
Lying awake in bed, night after night while Alix slept, she would remember how her girlfriends whispered when Marin Corbina, the flamboyant and disreputable soothsayer who lived in the St.
She had stood for the last fitting of the flamboyant gown only a week ago and it had fit perfectly with a decolletage that was positively scandalous.
Even the less flamboyant Fools courted danger: The half-and-half extremists seemed almost to glory in it.
Under Byrnes s flamboyant guidance the detectives in the bureau became known as the Immortals and they dramatically reduced the level of crime in a city as freewheeling back then as the Wild West.
Instantly she is replaced on the jumbo tube by Marilyn Manson, a flamboyant metalhead whose plangent ode to masochism puts an inexplicable bounce in my step.
As the invasion moves north, Lee is left blind by his cavalry, under the flamboyant command of Jeb Stuart.
Butte Montmartre, a flamboyant circus parade went noisily northeastward from the Bois de Boulogne toward the same destination.
Among the pillars at the top of the steps lingered a dozen or so young men in the gold and purple livery of the Household Sabreurs, complete with flamboyant purple cloaks and gold-hilted swords.
No doubt, given the luck she was experiencing thus far today, Tom Shaughnessy was a flamboyant criminal of some sort.