flamboyantness

I beg that grave note be taken of this just condemnation of the essential character—“the flamboyant”ness—of the architecture which up to this time I had chiefly, and most affectionately, studied.

1880, John Ruskin, “The Lamp of Truth”, in The Seven Lamps of Architecture, new edition, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, page 63

OUR stock is CLEAN; all late BUY and well kept. This is the store of the BETTER CLASS with no FLAMBOYANTNESS in EVIDENCE.

1922 January 11, J. M. McKee and Company, “Hold Your Money and Wait for This Sale”, in The Statesville Sentinel, volume XIX, number 5, Statesville, N.C.

It seemed for a moment as if the effervescent flamboyant[-]ness of Miss Corelli faded before the six-foot tall command of the statuesque Clara Butt.

1966, Ursula Bloom, Rosemary for Stratford-on-Avon, London: Robert Hale, page 84

Science prides itself on being proper and precise, and any type of flamboyantness is looked upon with distrust.

1971, “Cultural Definitions of the Female Professional”, in Athena Theodore, editor, The Professional Woman, Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company, Inc., page 139

But the ease and un-flamboyantness of these similes owes to their yoking of near neighbors in the natural world.

1973, The Mississippi Quarterly, page 641