Read full poem →Of purple batteries, every gun in place.
Forward they come, with flaunting colours spread,
With torches burning, stepping out in time
Dictionary Entry
To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
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Poetry examples for “flaunting”
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Read full poem →The phantom of a yellow rooster flaunting a scarlet
comb, on top of a dung pile crying hallelujah to
Read full poem →THE furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down
His cheeks the forth-and-flaunting sun
Had swarthed about with lion-brown
Read full poem →The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down
His cheeks the forth-and-flaunting sun
Had swarthed about with lion-brown
Read full poem →Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining,
Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day,
Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining,
Read full poem →Save concubines and carnal companie,
And flaunting wassailers of high and low degree.[21]
Read full poem →We loved to watch the warrior Sun,
With flaming shield and flaunting crest,
Go striding down the gory West,
Read full poem →Man's deathless soul will hack and hew its way,
Each flaunting Caesar climbing to his fate
Scorning the utmost steps of yesterday.
Read full poem →The darkness of the arrogant standards of the world,
With all its flaunting aims, ambitions, pleasures.