Hypertext Webster Gateway: "flaunt"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flaunt \Flaunt\ (? or ?; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flaunted};
p. pr. & vb. n.. {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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flaunt \Flaunt\, v. t.
To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flaunt \Flaunt\, n.
Anything displayed for show. [Obs.]
In these my borrowed flaunts. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
flaunt
n : the act of displaying something ostentatiously; "his
behavior was an outrageous flaunt"
v : display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously [syn: {flash},
{show off}, {swank}]
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