Hypertext Webster Gateway: "flaunting"

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.


Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup

Enter word here:
Exact Approx


dict.stokkie.net
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents; see the Webster Gateway FAQ, and also the Back-end/database links and credits.