flamboyant

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flamboyant /flamˈbɔɪənt/

▶adjective

• 1 conspicuously and confidently exuberant.

• 2 brightly coloured and showy.

• 3 of or denoting a style of French Gothic architecture marked by wavy flame-like tracery and ornate decoration.

▶noun a Madagascan tree with bright red flowers, planted as a street tree in the tropics. [Delonix regia.]

– derivatives
flamboyance noun,
flamboyancy noun,
flamboyantly adverb.

– origin C19: from Fr., lit. ‘flaming, blazing’, pres. part. of flamboyer, from flambe ‘a flame’.