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flaunting, ppl. a.|ˈflɔːntɪŋ|
That flaunts.
1. Waving gaily or proudly like a plume or a banner.
1623Massinger Bondman ii. i, For all your flaunting feathers. 1624R. Davenport City Night-cap iii. i, My Taylor bringing home My last new gown, having made the sleeves too flanting. 1634Milton Comus 543 A bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle. 1681Moores Baffled 24 In the Evening the Earl commanded a Squadron of Horse to fetch off the flanting Standard. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 55 Mantled with the flaunting grape-vine. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 394 Oh then I carried..casque with flaunting feather.
2. Making an obtrusive display; showy, gaudy.
1567Turberville To his friend that refused him, &c., Epitaphes, etc. (1870) 203 Yeeld me thy flanting hood, shake off those belles of thine. 1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. in Holinshed VI. 47 A flaunting ostentation of a roisting kind of rhetorike. 1660Pepys Diary 29 June, He told me in what high flaunting terms Sir J. Grenville had caused his [preamble] to be done. 1758Johnson Idler No. 28 ⁋3 As flaunting as Mrs. Gingham, the deputy's wife. 1786Burns To a Mountain Daisy, The flaunting flow'rs our gardens yield. 1829Lytton Disowned 13 A flaunting carpet, green, red, and yellow, covered the floor. 1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xxix. (1879) 258 [A] dingy public-house..completely thrown into obscurity by two flaunting gin-shops at the corner. 1868M. E. Braddon Dead Sea Fr. I. xii. 254 Their serio-comic woes about recalcitrant butlers and flaunting housemaids. 1885Manch. Even. News 10 Sept. 2/2 A strong effort was made to remove flaunting vice from the streets.
Hence ˈflauntingly adv., in a flaunting manner.
1581Sidney Astr. & Stella li. 2 Poems (Grosart 1877) I. 70 So may your tongue still flauntingly proceed. 1584R. W. Three Ladies Lond. ii. E ij, For I must to the wedding Both vauntingly and flauntingly, although I had no bidding. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. viii. 71 The more flauntingly to gallantrize it. 1874Burnand My Time xviii. 157 Across the road..stood..a flauntingly dressed woman. |