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Flaunt   /flɔnt/   Listen
verb
Flaunt  v. t.  To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of. "If you've got it, flaunt it."


Flaunt  v. i.  (past & past part. flaunted; pres. part. flaunting)  To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. "You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot." "One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade."


noun
Flaunt  n.  Anything displayed for show. (Obs.) "In these my borrowed flaunts."





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"Flaunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... shameful, and disgusting to behold them in the new French attire, which they call 'la Fontange,' and which leaves the person uncovered almost as far as the waist. They bedizen themselves with finery and flaunt through the streets in velvets and satins. And the men encourage them in it, join in their amusements, and waste their lives in banquetings and feastings. Such disgraceful lives as men must have passed in Sodom and Gomorrah! And although ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach
... dish-water ready to be emptied down into the drain. America is ruled by her cities, and they are ruled by the saloon and unrighteous trusts and political bosses. Foreigners from the old world slums flaunt the banner of independence in the face of American womanhood. And the church of God that might remedy the ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley
... amongst 'em an' no man denied he hed as good a right ter be harkened to as anybody else. But they rid over him rough-shod. A few men tuck ther bit in their teeth and flaunted ther balance of us. Now we aims ter flaunt them some." ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... felt only hate for her, but it had come to his diseased mind that if he could force her to accede to his demands as the price of her life and her child's, the cup of his revenge would be filled to brimming when he could flaunt the wife of Lord Greystoke in the capitals of Europe ...
— The Beasts of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... to an army in rags, Our general was but a boy When we first saw the Austrian flags Flaunt proud in the fields of Savoy. In the glorious year ninety-six, We march'd to the banks of the Po; I carried my drum and my sticks, And we laid ...
— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray


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