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flamboyants

flamboyants is the plural of flamboyant.

Meaning of flamboyant

Noun

flamboyant (plural flamboyants)

  1. The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree from Madagascar.
    • The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants, scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 45, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

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Questions about flamboyants

What is flamboyants the plural of?
Flamboyants is the plural of flamboyant.

Words near flamboyants in the dictionary

  1. flamboyant
  2. flamboyant cuttlefish
  3. flamboyant cuttlefishes
  4. flamboyantly
  5. flamboyantness
  6. flamboyants
  7. flamboyer
  8. flamboyers
  9. flamboys
  10. flambs
  11. Flambures

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