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#1 2007-02-02 11:37:05

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1222

'flambuoyant' for 'flamboyant'

I encountered ‘flambuoyantly’ (393 ghits) in an email this week – ‘flambuoyant’ yields 11,600 google hits. The ‘buoyant’ with its cheerful and lively connotations seems to fit quite well within ‘flamboyant’.

however, even though there was no TV then, jesus could have been flambuoyant enough not to be missed in a crowd but he chose humility, to be average. can’t …
www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-17663.0.html – 83k – Cached

Edinburgh was more flambuoyant. I painted very differently from the … Philipson and his assistant would storm in, flambuoyant in painting smocks, ...
www.irishartsreview.com/html/vol20_no3/ … allely.htm – 30k – Cached

... without stuffy programme notes or flambuoyant virtuosity. ... plenty of soloistic material in the second, a loud and flambuoyant third movement (which …
www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2 … lic&page=5 – 83k – Cached

His dashing and flambuoyant character made him a favourite with the public on … to give trouble and he was forced to glide down for a landing on the sea. ...
www.thosemagnificentmen.co.uk/channel/ – 26k – Cached

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