FLAMBOYANT

Flamboyant

Flamboyant is the name given to a florid style of late Gothic architecture in vogue in France from about 1350 until superseded by Renaissance architecture during the early 16th century, and mainly used in describing French buildings. The term is sometimes used of the early period of English Gothic architecture usually called the Decorated Style; the historian Edward Augustus Freeman proposed this in a work of 1851. A version of the style spread to Spain and Portugal during the 15th century. It evolved from the Rayonnant style and the English Decorated Style and was marked by even greater attention to decoration and the use of double curved tracery. The term was ...

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flamboyant

Noun

  1. A showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (Delonix regia)

Adjective

  1. Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.
  2. Referred to as the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.


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