extravaganza

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COLOGNE, Germany -- Just 18 hours before this year's Photokina opens its doors, the biannual camera extravaganza was looking like a bit of a wreck.

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  1. noun An elaborate, spectacular entertainment or display: "Washington is an extravaganza of great buildings, greenery, and monuments” (Larry Griffin).
  2. noun Music A composition marked by freedom and diversity of form, often with burlesque elements and satirical or parodic intent.

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  • SFist not only blushed at these NSFW shots from last week's sex-fetish extravaganza, the Folsom Street Fair, but also marveled at Sarah Palin's own perverse journalistic orgy of excess. —  Seattlest
  • A scavenger hunt extravaganza, an insider's look at Central Park, a scrumptious picnic lunch on the Great Lawn, a new perspective on the environment, New York, and you! —  The Bwog
  • Near the close of this year's 2008 rendition of the annual Oshkosh aerial extravaganza, a new Oshkosh control tower was dedicated, and done so in the presence of a plethora of federal and local officials. —  Aero-News Network
  • Drona, a big budger extravaganza is a very important film for everyone involved and if this film bombs the bollywood world of some of the people may just near it's end, ha ha, i'm not talking about Abhishek Bachan! —  NAACHGAANA
  • COLOGNE, Germany -- Just 18 hours before this year's Photokina opens its doors, the biannual camera extravaganza was looking like a bit of a wreck. —  Wired Top Stories
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  1. Italian estravaganza, extravagance, from estravagante, extravagant, from Medieval Latin extrāvagāns, extrāvagant-, present participle of extrāvagārī, to wander; see extravagant.

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  1. With ex- for es-, from Italian estravaganza, extravagance: see extravagance.
 

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