Flamboyant vs. Baroque

Flamboyant vs. Baroque — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Flamboyant and Baroque

Flamboyantadjective

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

Baroqueadjective

Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.

Flamboyantadjective

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

Baroqueadjective

Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.

Flamboyantadjective

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

Baroqueadjective

Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.

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Flamboyantnoun

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

Baroqueadjective

Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.

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

Baroquenoun

elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

Flamboyantadjective

elaborately or excessively ornamented;

flamboyant handwritingthe senator's florid speech

Baroqueadjective

having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation;

the building...frantically baroque
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Flamboyantadjective

richly and brilliantly colorful