flamboyant, flamboyance 1. Highly elaborate; ornate. 2. Richly colored; resplendent. 3. In architecture, relating to, or having wavy lines and flamelike forms characteristic of 15th and 16th-century French Gothic architecture. 4. Given to ostentatious or audacious display. 5. Etymology: 'flame-like curves', from French flamboyant, 'flaming, wavy... Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/832/