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royal poinciana, flamboyant, flame tree, peacock flower, Delonix regia, Poinciana regia

n. 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

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aureate, florid, flamboyant

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

rhetorical

adj. given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"

bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid

adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

pretentious

adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"

ostentatious, pretentious

adj. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

expressive

adj. characterized by expression; "a very expressive face"

dandified, dandyish, foppish

adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy

adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da

adj. affectedly genteel

flowery, ornate

adj. marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

embellished, ornamented, ornate

adj. rich in decorative detail

baroque, Baroque

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750

busy, fussy

adj. overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"

battlemented, castellated, castled, crenelated, crenellated

adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"

dressy

adj. in fancy clothing

crackle

adj. having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"

damascene

adj. (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals; "a damascened sword"

damask

adj. having a woven pattern; "damask table linens"

elaborate, luxuriant

adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"

embattled, battlemented, castled, castellated

adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"

lacy, lacelike

adj. made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"

puff, puffed

adj. gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"

rococo

adj. having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"

vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated

adj. decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework"

wan

adj. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile"

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