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1. Marked by ostentation but often tasteless
   "a cheap flamboyant rhinestone bracelet";
   - showy, splashy
    
2. Elaborately or excessively ornamented
   "flamboyant handwriting";
   - aureate, florid
    
3. (architecture) of the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries

1. Showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
   - royal poinciana, flame tree, peacock flower, Delonix regia, Poinciana regia

Derived forms: flamboyants

See also: fancy, ostentatious, posey [Brit, informal], pretentious

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree

Part of: Delonix, genus Delonix

Encyclopedia: Flamboyant