[f. FLAUNT v. + -ER1.] One who flaunts.

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1598.  Florio, Porta pennachij, a tosse feather, a flanter, a swaggrer.

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1681.  T. Jordan, London’s Joy, 14.

        No Ranters or Vaunters, or Chanters, or Flaunters,
Doth lead such a Life as the Bonny Boon Planters.

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1719.  D’Urfey, Pills, I. 5.

        Good b’uye to the Mall,
The Park and Canal;
St. James’s Square,
And Flaunters there.

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1742.  Warburton, Note on Pope’s Ess. Man, IV. 194 (Jod.). The pride of heart is the same both in the flaunter, and the flutterer, as it is the poet’s intention to insinuate by the use of those terms.

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1877.  Morley, Crit. Misc., Ser. II. 400. To compare this transformation of the simplicity of the original into the grotesque heat and overcharged violence of the copy, is to see the homely maiden of a country village transformed into the painted flaunter of the city.

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1883.  Punch, 8 Sept., 120/2.

                    Foolish flaunter, caught
By studied smile and calculated leer,
Or pseudo-Psyche glance, softly severe
Of the sham ingénue.

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