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flamboyantly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English flamboyant Middle English -ly English -ly English flamboyantly From flamboyant + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a flamboyant manner.
   • The entire tense, compact play takes place inside a subway car where an exchange between a flamboyantly loose blonde of about 30, Lula (Jennifer Mudge), and a conservatively dressed young black man, Clay (Dulé Hill ), escalates from surreally unsuppressed flirtation to violence and tragedy as all of Clay’s efforts toward assimilation are shown to be for naught. 2007 January 24, Ginia Bellafante, “’60s Prejudice and Capitalism as a Big Blond Metaphor”, in New York Times:
   • Frant and Etchingham [station buildings] are more flamboyantly gothic and are built of ragstone. 1957 August 14, H. P. White, “The Tonbridge-Hastings Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 529:

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