flaunting

Verb (1)

flaunt (third-person singular simple present flaunts, present participle flaunting, simple past and past participle flaunted)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
   • The black, rich soil had fed itself with the decay of a long period of time; such as fallen leaves, the petals of flowers, and the stalks and seed-vessels of vagrant and lawless plants, more useful after their death than ever while flaunting in the sun.1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC
2. (transitive) To parade, display with ostentation.
   • Near-synonym: vaunt

   Synonyms:

   vaunt

3. (archaic, intransitive, literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.
   • You Sot, ſays ſhe, you loyter about Alehouſes and Taverns, ſpend your Time at Billiards, Nine-pins or Puppet-ſhovvs, or flaunt about the Streets in your nevv gilt Chariot, never minding me nor your numerous Family; […]1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “How Bull and Frog went to Law with Lord Strutt about the Premisses, and were Joined by the Rest of the Tradesmen”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit....

   Synonyms:

   ostentate, preen, swagger, aura farm, boulevardier, cut a wide swath, cut it fat, cut round, exhibitionize, figure away

Verb (2)

flaunt (third-person singular simple present flaunts, present participle flaunting, simple past and past participle flaunted)

1. (proscribed) To flout.
   • By that late date, however, the golden age of the lurid paperback book was pretty much over, and the sort of punishment meted out to Aday and Maxey for flaunting the sexual mores of a McCarthyite culture would soon be a thing of the past.2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 22

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