FLAUNTING

Verb

flaunting

present participle of flaunt

Adjective

flaunting (comparative more flaunting, superlative most flaunting)

That flaunts; showy or gaudy

Noun

flaunting (plural flauntings)

The act by which something is flaunted.

Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend […]

Source: Wiktionary


FLAUNT

Flaunt ( or ; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flaunted; p. pr. & vb. n.. Flaunting.] Etym: [Cf. dial. G. flandern to flutter, wave; perh. akin to E. flatter, flutter.]

Definition: To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.

Flaunt, v. t.

Definition: To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.

Flaunt, n.

Definition: Anything displayed for show. [Obs.] In these my borrowed flaunts. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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