English
flaunt
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /flɔːnt/
  • (some accents) IPA: /flɑːnt/
  • (America) IPA: /flɔnt/
  • (cot-caught) IPA: /flɒnt/
Verb

flaunt (flaunts, present participle flaunting; past and past participle flaunted)

  1. (intransitive, archaic) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
    • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, 1985, p.26:
      The house came into sight, above the cedar grove beyond whose black interstices an apple orchard flaunted in the sunny afternoon.
  2. (transitive) To parade, display with ostentation.
    She's always flaunting her designer clothes.
  3. (intransitive, archaic or literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.
    • You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
    • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify ), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019 ↗:
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    • 1856, Dinah Craik, John Halifax Chapter VI,
      [T]he younger belles had begun to flaunt in the French fashions of flimsy muslins, shortwaisted— narrow-skirted.
    • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew Chapter XXV,
      […] and Mrs. Wix seemed to flaunt there in her finery.
  4. (proscribed) To flout.
    Wheeler said companies already are flaunting the rules by offering free or sponsored data services for some products.
Translations
  • German: kühn wehen, stolz wehen
Translations Translations Noun

flaunt (plural flaunts)

  1. (obsolete) Anything displayed for show.


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