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churrigueresco • extravagante • exuberante • ostentoso • vistoso
Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, style, etc.; ostentatious.
1920, Frederic Taber Cooper, The Craftsmanship of Writing, Chapter VI: The Question of Clearness, But a scorn of flamboyant neckties and checkerboard trousers is no excuse for goin…
When we see some of the monstrous and flamboyant blossoms that enrich the equatorial woods, we do not feel that they are conflagrations of nature; silent explosions of her frightfu…
flamígero
Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.
The second is a chapel of two storeys, the lower dating from 1150, while the upper was rebuilt in the 15th century, and there is a rich Flamboyant entrance with a stairway (1533).
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acacia • acacia roja • chivato • flamboyán • framboyán • malinche • pajarilla • ponciana • tabachín • árbol de fuego
The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree from Madagascar.
The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants, scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a…
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