Flamboyant vs. Pompous

Flamboyantadjective

Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.

Pompousadjective

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

Flamboyantadjective

(architecture) Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.

Pompousadjective

Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.

Flamboyantadjective

Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris.

Pompousadjective

Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.

‘he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.’;

Flamboyantnoun

The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree.

Pompousadjective

puffed up with vanity;

‘a grandiloquent and boastful manner’; ‘overblown oratory’; ‘a pompous speech’; ‘pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey’;

Flamboyantadjective

Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; - said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

Flamboyantnoun

showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana

Flamboyantadjective

elaborately or excessively ornamented;

‘flamboyant handwriting’; ‘the senator's florid speech’;

Flamboyantadjective

richly and brilliantly colorful

Flamboyant

Flamboyant (from French: flamboyant, lit. 'flaming') is a form of late Gothic architecture that developed in Europe in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, from around 1375 to the mid-16th century. It is characterized by double curves forming flame-like shapes in the bar-tracery, which give the style its name; by the multiplication of ornamental ribs in the vaults; and by the use of use of the arch in accolade.