Both Uses
ostentatious
in
Love's Labour's Lost
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- ...with some delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antic, or firework.
Scene 5.1 *ostentation = actions intended to attract notice and impress others
- Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical; these summer-flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation: I do forswear them; and I here protest, By this white glove,—how white the hand, God knows!†
Scene 5.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(ostentatious) intended to attract notice and impress others -- especially with wealth in a vulgar way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)