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flamboyance en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English flamboyant Latin -ns Latin -āns Latin -ia Latin -āntia Old French -ancebor. Middle English -aunce English -ance English flamboyance From flamboyant + -ance.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The condition of being flamboyant.
2. (collective, countable) A group of flamingos.
   • After so many years of eating at his desk, it was a sweet reward to relax with his steak sandwich and his flamboyance of birds. 2025, Lauren Acampora, The Best American Short Stories 2025, Domino:
   • Right after a new "flamboyance" of flamingos arrived at the San Diego Zoo and joined the current 99 1999, Douglas George Myers, Lynda Rutledge, Mister Zoo - The Life and Legacy of Dr. Charles Schroeder: the World-famous San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park's Legendary Director, Zoological Society of San Diego:
   • in the foreground, a flamboyance of flamingos. 2024, Amber Jamilla Musser, Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined, Duke University Press:
   • Flamboyances of flamingos are a feature of the lake. 2024, Anthony Ham, Travel Guide Tanzania, Lonely Planet:
   • I paused to look at a large flamboyance of plastic flamingos , arranged in tight formation , planted in a sandy clearing next to one of the houses 2026, Jack Parlett, Flamboyance: The Power of Living Boldly, Hanover Square Press:

Forms

Hypernyms

flock

Relateds

unflamboyance

Synonyms

flamboyantness · flamboyancy

Translations (4)

ga stráice (condition of being flamboyant) · fr flamboyance (condition of being flamboyant) · de Extravaganz (condition of being flamboyant) · de Üppigkeit (condition of being flamboyant)