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flamboyant, a. and n.|flæmˈbɔɪənt|
Also 9 flambeauant.
[a. F. flamboyant, pr. pple. of flamboyer, OF. flambeiier, f. flambe flame n.
The OF. word may however descend from the pop. L. *flammidiāre (whence It. fiammeggiare) or the recorded late L. flammigāre (Gellius).]
A. adj.
1. Arch. Characterized by waved lines of contrary flexure in flame-like forms (Gwilt): of the style prevalent in France in the 15th and the first half of the 16th c. Also absol. (quasi-n.).
1832Rickman in Archæologia XXV. 182 They are of all dates, from Early French to the latest Flamboyant. 1836H. G. Knight Archit. Tour Normandy 215 A change..which has recently acquired the fanciful appellation of Flamboyant. 1848Rickman Archit. 153 A tendency to the Flamboyant style of tracery is frequently observable. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 31 The exuberant Flamboyant of the continent. 1883Gd. Words 503 Etchingham church, with its..curious flamboyant window.
b. In loose and transferred use: Florid, floridly decorated.
1879Dowden Southey i. 9 That flamboyant penmanship admired by our ancestors. 1883L. Wingfield A. Rowe I. v. 94 Sir Francis Burdett indulged in flamboyant perorations. 1887Saintsbury Hist. Elizab. Lit. ii. 42 Although he [Sidney] seldom or never reaches the beauties of the flamboyant period of prose.
2. Of wavy form, suggesting the outline of a flame. Said chiefly of a sword.
1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. 362 With massive face, flamboyant hair. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 80 He there with the brand flamboyant. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. iii. 152 A Siamese grotesque head..[with] flambeauant ears. 1885E. Castle Schools & Masters of Fence (1892) 334 By some writers it [the name Flamberg] is restricted to the flamboyant Spadone or Zweyhänder.
3. Flamingly or gorgeously coloured.
1851Longfellow Gold. Leg. iii. xli, See, too, the Rose, above the western portal Flamboyant with a thousand gorgeous colours. 1867D. G. Mitchell Rural Studies 3 Whose daughters, in flamboyant ribbons, were among the belles of the parish. 1888Punch 13 Oct. 170/3 Oh, the flamboyant flare of those fiendish designs, With their sanguine paint-splashes.
B. n. A name for certain plants with flame-coloured flowers.
1879I. L. Bishop Sk. Malay Pen. i. in Leisure H. (1883) 20/2 That wonderful flowering tree variously known as the ‘flamboyant’ and ‘the flame of the forest’ (Poinciana regia). 1885A. Brassey The Trades 141 The richly-coloured orange and yellow flowers of the flamboyante (Poinciana).
Hence flamˈboyantly, adv.
1894Speaker 26 May 586/2 Upon this canvas they are radiantly and flamboyantly alive.
Add:[B.] n. Also ‖ flamboyan |flæmˈbɔɪən|, ‖ flamboyante. Substitute for def.: The royal poinciana, Delonix regia (formerly Poinciana regia). Also (rare) flamboyant tree. (Further examples.)
1903Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herbarium VIII. 223 Poinciana regia, flame tree, flamboyan. 1913L. Woolf Village in Jungle v. 95 From there you will see a flamboyant-tree in full blossom. 1948A. J. Seymour Guiana Bk. 21 Sometimes the blood forgets the flowering trees, Red with flamboyants in the hard clear sun. 1963Robertson & Gooding Bot. for Caribbean iii. 24 Common deciduous trees are Flamboyante (Poinciana regia), Spanish Ash..and Quickstick. 1977New Yorker 17 Oct. 37/2 The red in the hibiscus and the flamboyant flowers seems redder; the green of the trees and grass seems greener. 1982C. de Silva Winds of Sinhala xiv. 142 A grassy green slope, scattered with occasional shade trees, kumbuk, banyan and red-flowered flamboyant. 1987N.Y. Times 26 Apr. x. 9/5 The church doors frame remarkable vistas, flamboyan and almond trees nearby, mountains in the distance. |