Literary notes about flamboyant (AI summary)
The word “flamboyant” is employed to evoke vivid imagery and a sense of extravagant expression in literary descriptions. It often highlights the intricate, ornate qualities of Gothic architectural elements—calling to mind soaring facades, elaborate tracery, and richly carved details that transform a building into a spectacle of artistic excess [1][2][3]. At the same time, the term is applied to characters and actions, where it underlines a theatrical, energetic quality—from lively hair or dress to remarkably exuberant behavior—and even to language itself, marking a narrative style that is as grand as it is vividly evocative [4][5][6].
- The upper part of the façade of Reims (1380–1428) belongs to the transition from the Rayonnant to the Flamboyant.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The same merchant-prince built in Bourges Cathedral a private chapel for his family, and beside it a rich Flamboyant Gothic sacristy.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly - It consists of a nave of four bays with a flat apse pierced by a vast window enriched with flamboyant tracery.
— from The Story of Brussels by Ernest Gilliat-Smith - The stories of him are too many, and too flamboyant, to tell.
— from Mons, Anzac and Kut by Aubrey Herbert - Her sandy hair was tortured into innumerable kinky and unnatural curls, surmounted by a flamboyant bow of pink ribbon bigger than her head.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery - Ingram was a gaunt man with flamboyant hair, weather-beaten cheeks, and worried eyes.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
