Dictionary Definition
flamboyant adj
1 elaborately or excessively ornamented;
"flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn:
aureate, florid, showy]
2 richly and brilliantly colorful [syn: resplendent, unrestrained] 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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From the French word flamboyer (“to blaze”).Pronunciation
Adjective
Translations
Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour,
appearance, etc.
- Dutch: extravagant
- Finnish: pramea, mahtaileva
- German: extravagant
Referred to as the final stage of French Gothic
architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries
- Finnish: mahtaileva
Noun
- A showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (Delonix regia)
Translations
- Spanish: acacia italbrac Venezuela, acacia roja italbrac Colombia, árbol de fuego italbrac El Salvador, chivato , flamboyán , framboyán italbrac Cuba, malinche , pajarilla italbrac Bolivia, tabachín italbrac Mexico
Extensive Definition
Flamboyant is the name given to a florid style of
late Gothic
architecture in
vogue in France, Spain and Portugal during
the 15th
century. It evolved from the Rayonnant style
and was marked by even greater attention to decoration then the
latter. The name derives from the flame-like windings of its
tracery and the dramatic lengthening of pediments and the tops of
arches.
Some Examples of the Flamboyant Gothic Style
- Church of Saint Maclou, Rouen
- Church of Saint Vulfran, Abbeville
- Transepts of Senlis Cathedral.
- Moulins Cathedral
- Church of Saint Anne, Vilnius
See also
flamboyant in Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa):
Палымяная готыка
flamboyant in German: Flamboyant
(Stilstufe)
flamboyant in Spanish: Gótico flamígero
flamboyant in Dutch: Flamboyante gotiek
flamboyant in Polish: Flamboyant
flamboyant in Swedish: Flamboyant
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedazzling, bedizened, big-sounding,
blinding, bright, bright and shining,
brilliant, busy, chichi, convoluted, dashing, dazzling, declamatory, decorated, effulgent, elaborate, elegant, elevated, embellished, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy, fine, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, frilly, fulgent, fulgid, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high, high-flowing, high-flown,
high-flying, high-sounding, high-wrought, highfalutin, inkhorn, jaunty, labored, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luscious, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque, ornamented, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overinvolved, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, peacockish, peacocky, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious, pretty-pretty,
rakish, refulgent, resplendent, rhetorical, rich, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic,
sententious,
showy, sonorous, splashy, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stilted, swank, swashbuckling, tall, tortuous, vivid, wide