Both Uses of
ostentatious
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- ...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
Definition:
intended to attract notice and impress others -- especially with wealth in a vulgar way