FLAMBOYANCE, FLAMBOYANT
ADJECTIVES
► AFFICHÉ characterized by flamboyant or showy display; extravagant, ostentatious → 1818
► FLAMBASTIC flamboyant and bombastic → 1970 Amer. dial.
► FREE-WHEELING flamboyant and uncontrolled; lacking restraint → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► GLAM flamboyant, esp. in dress and appearance → 1993 US sl.
► HOT flamboyant, exuberant, or daring in the pursuit of pleasure; uninhibited, wild → 1888 Amer. sl.
► QUEENY flamboyant and effeminate; blatantly homosexual → 1936 homosexual sl.
NOUNS
► CAMP flamboyance, overt exhibitionism; hence, a flamboyant person of either sex → 1920s sl.
► CAMPING flamboyance, overt exhibitionism → 1920s sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► ACE a man who favours flamboyant, up-to-the-minute clothes, shoes, etc. → 1975 Amer. sl., chiefly African-American (Bk.)
► CAMP a flamboyant person of either sex → 1920s sl.
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