All 4 Uses of
flamboyant
in
Babbitt
- The entrance was too modern to be flamboyant with pillars; it was quiet, shrewd, neat.†
Chpt 3 *
- Flamboyantly smoking cigars they sat in a box at the burlesque show, their feet up on the rail, while a chorus of twenty daubed, worried, and inextinguishably respectable grandams swung their legs in the more elementary chorus-evolutions, and a Jewish comedian made vicious fun of Jews.†
Chpt 13
- Thus it came to pass that in the Sunday Advocate-Times, under a picture of Dr. Drew at his earnestest, with eyes alert, jaw as granite, and rustic lock flamboyant, appeared an inscription—a wood-pulp tablet conferring twenty-four hours' immortality: The Rev. Dr. John Jennison Drew, M.A., pastor of the beautiful Chatham Road Presbyterian Church in lovely Floral Heights, is a wizard soul-winner.†
Chpt 17
- Ingram was a gaunt man with flamboyant hair, weather-beaten cheeks, and worried eyes.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(flamboyant) showy; or excessively ornamented -- especially brilliantly colorful