different between flamboyant vs flame

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), participle of flamboyer (“to flame”), from Old French flamboier, from flambe (“flame”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /flam?b???nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /flæm?b??(j)?nt/
• Hyphenation: flam?boy?ant
• Rhymes: -??.?nt

Adjective

flamboyant (comparative more flamboyant, superlative most flamboyant)

1. Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.
   • 1902, G. K. Chesterton, The Optimism of Byron, in Twelve Types,

     When we see some of the monstrous and flamboyant blossoms that enrich the equatorial woods, we do not feel that they are conflagrations of nature; silent explosions of her frightful energy. We simply find it hard to believe that they are not wax flowers grown under a glass case.

   • 1920, Frederic Taber Cooper, The Craftsmanship of Writing, Chapter VI: The Question of Clearness,

     But a scorn of flamboyant neckties and checkerboard trousers is no excuse for going to the opposite extreme of a blue flannel shirt and overalls; […] .

   • 1962 May 12, Douglas MacArthur, Duty, honor, country,

     The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.

2. (architecture) Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
   • 1891, Sabine Baring-Gould, In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc, Chapter XIX: Avignon,

     S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.

   • 1911, Bruges, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,

     The second is a chapel of two storeys, the lower dating from 1150, while the upper was rebuilt in the 15th century, and there is a rich Flamboyant entrance with a stairway (1533).

   • 1913, Abbey of Saint-Ouen, article in Catholic Encyclopedia,

     The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan.

3. Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris.

   Synonym: serpentine

Translations

Noun

flamboyant (plural flamboyants)

1. The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 45

     The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants, scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.

Translations

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), present participle of flamboyer (“to flame, blaze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flamborjant/, [fl?mb?o???jan?d?] or IPA^(key): /flamboajant/, [fl?mb?o??jan?d?]

Adjective

flamboyant

1. flamboyant, magnificent, opulent

Inflection

Synonyms

• overdådig
• pragtfuld
• prægtig
• strålende

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl??.bwa.j??/

Verb

flamboyant

1. present participle of flamboyer

Adjective

flamboyant (feminine singular flamboyante, masculine plural flamboyants, feminine plural flamboyantes)

1. flaming
2. flamboyant

Further reading

• “flamboyant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From French flamboyant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [flãbo?a?jant]
• Hyphenation: flam?bo?yant

Adjective

flamboyant (comparative flamboyanter, superlative am flamboyantesten)

1. flamboyant

Declension

Further reading

• “flamboyant” in Duden online

English

Etymology

From Middle English flawme, flaume, flaumbe, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?l?- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fl?m, IPA^(key): /fle?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Noun

flame (countable and uncountable, plural flames)

1. The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.

   • Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].
2. A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.
   • 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon

     I could copy out yards of rhapsody to Lord George Poynings, her old flame, in which she addressed him by the most affectionate names.

3. (Internet) Intentionally insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger.
4. A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
5. (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.

6. Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Coleridge to this entry?)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

flame (third-person singular simple present flames, present participle flaming, simple past and past participle flamed)

1. To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
2. To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
3. (Internet, transitive, intransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).

   I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.

   • 2019, Steven McCornack & Kelly Morrison, Reflect & Relate, 5th edition

     Because online communication makes it easy to flame, many of us impetuously fire off messages that we later regret.

Derived terms

• flamer
• flaming

Related terms

• flambé

Translations

Adjective

flame (not comparable)

1. Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.

Translations

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Anagrams

• femal, fleam

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flam/
• Homophones: flament, flames

Verb

flame

1. first-person singular present indicative of flamer
2. third-person singular present indicative of flamer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of flamer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of flamer
5. second-person singular imperative of flamer

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French flame.

Noun

flame

1. Alternative form of flawme

Etymology 2

From Old French flamber.

Verb

flame

1. Alternative form of flawmen

Old French

Etymology

From Latin flamma.

Noun

flame f (oblique plural flames, nominative singular flame, nominative plural flames)

1. flame

Derived terms

• enflamer

Descendants

• ? English: flame
• French: flamme

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?flame]

Noun

flame f

1. indefinite plural of flam?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of flam?

Walloon

Noun

flame f (plural flames)

1. flame

   Synonym: blame