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  • noun The condition of being flamboyant
  • noun A group of flamingos

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  • noun extravagant elaborateness

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Examples

  • Back in the seemingly pre-historic 1950s an interviewer asked pianist Liberace if it bothered him that people made fun of his flamboyance (which was a code word, back then for being gay).

    Tim Berry: Who's Winning the Cramer vs. Stewart Battle? 2009

  • Back in the seemingly pre-historic 1950s an interviewer asked pianist Liberace if it bothered him that people made fun of his flamboyance (which was a code word, back then for being gay).

    Tim Berry: Who's Winning the Cramer vs. Stewart Battle? 2009

  • Back in the seemingly pre-historic 1950s an interviewer asked pianist Liberace if it bothered him that people made fun of his flamboyance (which was a code word, back then for being gay).

    Tim Berry: Who's Winning the Cramer vs. Stewart Battle? 2009

  • Pigliucci's embarrassment is a result of his own "flamboyance" - further in evidence at his

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • Pigliucci's embarrassment is a result of his own "flamboyance" - further in evidence at his

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • Pigliucci's embarrassment is a result of his own "flamboyance" - further in evidence at his

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • * the great Colossus POV as it spies on Forbin, especially in the more titillating sections and all of that visual flamboyance is coupled with the magnificently chilling audio centerpiece: the Voice of Colossus and its horrifying implacable tone.

    Show #29: Pre-show Discussion : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas 2007

  • People recall the flamboyance, the excesses and the scandals, but consider instead the work; Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, those wonderful holiday stories on TV about old ladies and little boys and, of course, his extraordinary journalism.

    Hollywood's Capote, And Mine James Brady 2006

  • Snow fields his position the way Ozzie Smith fielded his, with a certain flamboyance.

    USATODAY.com - Defense rules in Gold-Glove NLCS 2002

  • Perhaps it was the "flamboyance" that explained why he never clinched the deal with Robert Mugabe, the famously homophobic Zimbabwean strongman who has accused Tony Blair of being a "gay gangster" leading "the gay government of the gay United gay Kingdom," and prides himself on being able to spot "flamboyance" at 200 yards.

    The Pariah Guy 2005

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  • A flock of flamingoes

    November 16, 2007