Ostentation: alternatives and connections

To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.

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Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.

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The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.

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A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display.

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To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

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Alt. of Inelegancy

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The quality or state of being large.

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The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title.

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Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful.

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Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful.

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A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.

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To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

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The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.

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The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.

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The quality or state of being puffy.

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