Flaunting

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flaunt \Flaunt\ (fl[aum]nt or fl[add]nt; 277), v. i. [imp. & p.
   p. {Flaunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.. {Flaunting}.] [Cf. dial. G.
   flandern to flutter, wave; perh. akin to E. flatter,
   flutter.]
   To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously;
   as, a flaunting show.
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         You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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         One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. --Pope.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "flaunting":
      Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, bedizened, big-sounding,
      blatant, blazon, blinding, brandish, brandishing, brave, bravura,
      braw, brazen, brazenfaced, brilliancy, chichi, colorful,
      convoluted, crude, daring, dash, dashing, declamatory,
      demonstration, display, dramatics, dressy, eclat, elevated,
      etalage, euphuistic, exhibition, exhibitionism, exhibitionistic,
      extravagant, false front, fanfaronade, figure, flagrant, flair,
      flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, flaunt, flourish,
      flourishing, frilly, frothy, fulsome, gallant, garish, gaudy, gay,
      glaring, glittering, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose,
      grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding,
      highfalutin, histrionics, inkhorn, jaunty, jazzy, labyrinthine,
      lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid, magniloquent, manifestation,
      meretricious, obtrusive, orotund, ostentatious, overbright,
      overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pageant,
      pageantry, parade, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rakish, raw,
      rhetorical, screaming, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious,
      shaking, sham, shameless, show, showing-off, showy, shrieking,
      snazzy, sonorous, spectacle, spectacular, splash, splashy, splurge,
      splurgy, sporty, staginess, stilted, tall, tawdry, theatrics,
      tortuous, undulation, vaunt, vulgar, wave, wave motion, waving

    

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