flaggery

flag·ge·ry
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UK/ˈflæɡəɹi/

noun

The ostentatious display of flags.

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Meanings

nounflaggery (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe ostentatious display of flags.

    The last century amply demonstrated a link between flaggery and bogus patriotism. Are flags something we should put behind us as relics of humanity's childhood?

    2010, Greg Gould, Lesley Boland, Sean Harverson, Caught in the Breeze: 10 Essays, page 83
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    One writer said "Broadway was hidden in a cloud of flaggery." And the roll of drums, the booming of cannon, gorgeously dressed soldiers parading the streets in every direction, […]

    1885, John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, page 158

Origin

flag + -ery

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APA

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Chicago

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