What does "flaunt" mean?
Flaunt: 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 senses
- 2.To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.
- 3.Anything displayed for show. [Obs.] In these my borrowed flaunts. Shak.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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