Definitions
display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
Word origin
Alternatively, it could be related to Swedish flankt (“loosely, flutteringly”) (compare English flaunt-a-flaunt), from flanka (“waver, hang and wave about, ramble”), a nasalised variant of flakka (“to waver”), related to Middle English flacken (“to move to and fro, flutter, palpitate”). See flack.
Used in a sentence
“Flaunt away, flags of all nations! be duly lower’d at sunset!”
“At the corner of the bridge, too, I saw one of the common contrasts of that grotesque time—a sheet of paper flaunting against a thicket of the Red Weed, transfixed by a stick that kept it in place.”
“The house came into sight, above the cedar grove beyond whose black interstices an apple orchard flaunted in the sunny afternoon.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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