All 3 Uses of
ostentatious
in
Les Miserables
- Now, it was the usage of the house, when the Bishop had any one to supper, to lay out the whole six sets of silver on the table-cloth—an innocent ostentation.†
Chpt 1.2
- She had a small property, which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community.
Chpt 1.5 *ostentation = in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
- …of a minute and not always the value of a year; sober, serene, peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking them; an…†
Chpt 4.1
Definition:
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(ostentatious) intended to attract notice and impress others -- especially with wealth in a vulgar way