adj.1 ostentatious; showy.
2 floridly decorated.
3 gorgeously coloured.
4 Archit. (of decoration) marked by wavy flamelike lines.
Derivatives:
flamboyance n. flamboyancy n. flamboyantly adv.
Etymology: F (in Archit. sense), pres. part. of flamboyer f. flambe: see FLAMBEAU