All 3 Uses
flaunt
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To the Lighthouse
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- Here, she felt, putting the spoon down, where one could move or rest; could wait now (they were all helped) listening; could then, like a hawk which lapses suddenly from its high station, flaunt and sink on laughter easily, resting her whole weight upon what at the other end of the table her husband was saying about the square root of one thousand two hundred and fifty-three.†
Part 1flaunt = show off
- Still she could say nothing; the whole horizon seemed swept bare of objects to talk about; could only feel, amazedly, as Mr. Ramsay stood there, how his gaze seemed to fall dolefully over the sunny grass and discolour it, and cast over the rubicund, drowsy, entirely contented figure of Mr. Carmichael, reading a French novel on a deck-chair, a veil of crape, as if such an existence, flaunting its prosperity in a world of woe, were enough to provoke the most dismal thoughts of all.†
Part 3flaunting = showing off
- How that little round hole of pink heel seemed to flaunt itself before them!†
Part 3 *flaunt = show off
Definitions:
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(1)
(flaunt) the act of showing off (displaying something in an obvious way for others to admire or envy)
or:
openly defiant of rules or expectations - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)