flamboyer

  • 61retremper — (re tran pé) v. a. 1°   Tremper de nouveau. Retremper du linge pour le blanchir. Retremper de l acier qui a été mis à la forge. 2°   Fig. Donner une nouvelle trempe, une nouvelle vigueur. L adversité a retrempé son âme. •   D un autre Sinaï fais… …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 62flamboyant — flam·bo·yant agg.inv. ES fr. {{wmetafile0}} TS arte solo nella loc. → gotico flamboyant {{line}} {{/line}} DATA: 1892. ETIMO: p.pres. di flamboyer fiammeggiare …

    Dizionario italiano

  • 63flamboyant — flam|boy|ant [flæmˈbɔıənt] adj [Date: 1800 1900; : French; Origin: , present participle of flamboyer to flame ] 1.) behaving in a confident or exciting way that makes people notice you flamboyant style/character/personality ▪ Randall s flamboyant …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 64flamboyant — 1832, first used of a 15c. 16c. architectural style with flame like curves, from Fr. flamboyant flaming, wavy, prp. of flamboyer to flame, from O.Fr. flamboier (12c.), from flambe flame, from flamble, variant of flamme, from L. flammula (see… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 65flamboyant — [flam bɔɪənt] adjective 1》 conspicuously and confidently exuberant. 2》 brightly coloured and showy. 3》 of or denoting a style of French Gothic architecture marked by wavy flame like tracery and ornate decoration. noun a Madagascan tree with… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 66flamboyant — flam•boy•ant [[t]flæmˈbɔɪ ənt[/t]] adj. 1) strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant clothes[/ex] 2) extravagantly dashing and colorful: flamboyant behavior[/ex] 3) florid; ornate; elaborately styled 4) archit. (often cap.) a) (in… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 67flamboyant — /flæmˈbɔɪənt / (say flam boyuhnt) adjective 1. extroverted and consciously theatrical: a flamboyant personality. 2. flaming; gorgeous: flamboyant colours. 3. florid; ornate; showy: flamboyant rhetoric. –noun Also, flamboyante. 4. a flowering tree …

  • 68flamber — Flamber, Flamboyer, Jetter flambe, Flammare. Flamber un cochon en la broche, Inflammato vel ardenti lardo porculum perungere, Lardum inflammatum instillare porculo vel in porculum. La nuée flamboye et reluist, Inardescit solis radiis nubes.… …

    Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • 69flamber — vi. , brûler avec une vive clarté, flamboyer : FARÂ vi. (Albanais.001, Annecy.003, Thônes.004), fazhèzh (St Martin Porte) ; flamâ vi. (003,004, Saxel.002) || se flamâ vp. (002,003,004) ; FLyANBÂ vi. (Arvillard, Chambéry | 001) ; fwâlyî (001),… …

    Dictionnaire Français-Savoyard

  • 70flamejar — flameja flamboyer …

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