2. Adjective. That flaunts; showy or gaudy ¹
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Definition of Flaunting
1. flaunt [v] - See also: flaunt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flaunting
Literary usage of Flaunting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1916)
"On his birthday Ernest generally receives an envelope with an American postmark
containing a book-marker with a flaunting text upon it, ..."
2. The Theory of Toleration Under the Later Stuarts by Alexander Adam Seaton (1911)
"... and the ' flaunting of Papists' at Court, all combined to create a panic which
for a few weeks overcame the desire of pensioners to earn their reward, ..."
3. Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition, in by Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg (1896)
"Couple those adjectives and nouus below that most appropriately go together:—
Modest, lovely, flaunting, meek, patient, faithful, saucy, spirited, violet, ..."
4. Anecdotes of Polite Literature (1764)
"Amid the mould'i-ing caverns dark an ' Or the calm breeze that rallies in the
leaves (Of "flaunting ivy, that. with mantle green ..."
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