Flamboyant vs. Baroque

Flamboyant and Baroque Definitions
Flamboyant
Given to or marked by elaborate, ostentatious, or audacious display or behavior.
Baroque
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.
Flamboyant
Richly or brightly colored; resplendent
A flamboyant turban.
Baroque
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.
Flamboyant
Of, relating to, or having wavy lines and flamelike forms characteristic of 15th- and 16th-century French Gothic architecture.
Baroque
Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation:"the baroque, encoded language of post-structural legal and literary theory"(Wendy Kaminer).
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Flamboyant
See royal poinciana.
Baroque
Irregular in shape:baroque pearls.
Flamboyant
Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.
Baroque
The baroque style or period in art, architecture, or music.
Flamboyant
(architecture) Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
Baroque
Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
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Flamboyant
Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris.
Baroque
Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
Flamboyant
The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree.
Baroque
Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
Flamboyant
Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; - said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.
Baroque
Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
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Flamboyant
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
Baroque
Characteristic of Western art music of about the same period.
Flamboyant
Elaborately or excessively ornamented;
Flamboyant handwriting
The senator's florid speech
Baroque
(figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.
Grotesquely baroque bureaucratic hassles
Baroque bookkeeping in pursuit of tax dodges
Flamboyant
Richly and brilliantly colorful
Baroque
An ornate, detailed style.
Baroque
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.
Baroque
Hence, overly complicated, or ornamented to excess; in bad taste; grotesque; odd.
Baroque
Irregular in form; - said esp. of a pearl.
Baroque
Elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
Baroque
Having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation;
The building...frantically baroque