Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Flaunting or flauntingly; with showy equipage or dress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a flaunting state or position.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In a
flaunting state or position.
Etymologies
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a- + flaunt
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Examples
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Now as Sir Pertinax wrung his hands in an agony of indecision, rose a whisper of sweet sound, the murmur of softly-plucked lute-strings, and into the glade, cock's-comb aflaunt and ass's ears a-dangle Duke Jocelyn strode and sang as he came a song he had made on a time, a familiar air:
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Red comb aflaunt, bold-eyed and spurred for strife,
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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"May it not seeme enough for a courtier to know how to _weare a feather_ and _set his cappe_ aflaunt; his _chain en echarpe_; a straight _buskin, al
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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