gaudy as a peacock

adjective

Roget 882: ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty^†, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid etc. (big-sounding) 577; gairish^†, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a peacock, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay etc. (ornate) 847.    splendid, magnificent, sumptuous.    theatrical, dramatic, spectacular; ceremonial, ritual.    solemn, stately, majestic, formal, stiff, ceremonious, punctilious, starched.    dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue [Fr.], in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanch_e, chic.    ... show more

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