Flamboyant

(flam-boi'ant.) [Fr., from L.flamm a, a flame.] (Arch.) A term applied by the antiquaries of France to the style of architecture which was contemporary in that country with the Perpendicular of England,from the flame like wavures of its tracery. It ought perhaps to be regarded as a vitiated Decorated rather than a distinct style, though some of its characteristics are peculiar, and it seldom po e es the purity and boldne of earlier ages; in rich works the intricacy and redundancy of the ornaments are sometimes truly surprising. One of its most striking and universal features is the wavy arrangement of the tracery of the windows (Fig. 327),panels, . [s. 368] IMG:p0401_0.jpg:Gravür