flamboyer

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French flamboyer (to be bright).

Noun

flamboyer (plural flamboyers)

  1. (botany, archaic) Any of various trees in the East and West Indies with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinieae, especially of Delonix and Caesalpinia, all of which were formerly in the obsolete genus Poinciana.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for flamboyer in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)


French

Etymology

flamber + -oyer; compare Catalan flamejar, Italian fiammeggiare, Spanish llamear, Portuguese chamejar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flɑ̃.bwa.je/

Verb

flamboyer

  1. (intransitive) to blaze, flame

Conjugation

This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the ‘y’ with an ‘i’ before a silent ‘e’.

Further reading

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