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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flamboyant \Flam*boy"ant\, adjective [F.] (Arch.) Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
flamboyant
adjective
1: elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: {aureate}, {florid}, {showy}]
2: richly and brilliantly colorful [syn: {resplendent}, {unrestrained}]
noun: 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 [syn: {royal poinciana}, {flame tree}, {peacock flower}, {Delonix regia}, {Poinciana regia}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "flamboyant": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedazzling, bedizened, big-sounding, blinding, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, busy, chichi, convoluted, dashing, dazzling, declamatory, decorated, effulgent, elaborate, elegant, elevated, embellished, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy, fine, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, frilly, fulgent, fulgid, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, high-wrought, highfalutin, inkhorn, jaunty, labored, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luscious, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque, ornamented, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overinvolved, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, peacockish, peacocky, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious, pretty-pretty, rakish, refulgent, resplendent, rhetorical, rich, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, splashy, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stilted, swank, swashbuckling, tall, tortuous, vivid, wide
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