Flaunt . Flaunting.] [Cf. dial. G. flandern to flutter, wave; perh. akin to E. flatter, flutter.]

To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.

You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot.

One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.

 

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Flaunt, v. t.

To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.

 

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Flaunt, n.

Anything displayed for show.

[Obs.]

In these my borrowed flaunts. Shak.

 

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