Flamboyant vs. Baroque

Given to or marked by elaborate, ostentatious, or audacious display or behavior.

AlsoBaroqueOf, relating to, or characteristic of a style in art and architecture developed in Europe from the early 17th to mid-18th century, emphasizing dramatic, often strained effect and typified by bold, curving forms, elaborate ornamentation, and overall balance of disparate parts.

Richly or brightly colored; resplendent

AlsoBaroque(Music)Of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of composition that flourished in Europe from about 1600 to 1750, marked by expressive dissonance and elaborate ornamentation.

Of, relating to, or having wavy lines and flamelike forms characteristic of 15th- and 16th-century French Gothic architecture.

Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation:"the baroque, encoded language of post-structural legal and literary theory"(Wendy Kaminer).

See royal poinciana.

Irregular in shape:baroque pearls.

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

The baroque style or period in art, architecture, or music.

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

Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.

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

Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.

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

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

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

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

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

Characteristic of Western art music of about the same period.

Elaborately or excessively ornamented;

(figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.

Richly and brilliantly colorful

An ornate, detailed style.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, an artistic style common in the 17th century, characterized by the use of complex and elaborate ornamentation, curved rather than straight lines, and, in music a high degree of embellishment.

Hence, overly complicated, or ornamented to excess; in bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Irregular in form; - said esp. of a pearl.

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

Having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation;