flaunt

To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.

The black, rich soil had fed itself with the decay of a long period of time; such as fallen leaves, the petals of flowers, and the stalks and seed-vessels of vagrant and lawless plants, more useful after their death than ever while flaunting in the sun.

Flaunt away, flags of all nations! be duly lower’d at sunset!

To parade, display with ostentation.

She’s always flaunting her designer clothes.

He pierced with his sombre detachment the plate-glass of ironmongers and saddlers, while Strether flaunted an affinity with the dealers in stamped letter-paper and in smart neckties.

To show off, as with flashy clothing.

You Sot, ſays ſhe, you loyter about Alehouſes and Taverns, ſpend your Time at Billiards, Nine-pins or Puppet-ſhovvs, or flaunt about the Streets in your nevv gilt Chariot, never minding me nor your numerous Family; […]

One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.

Anything displayed for show.

Should I , in these my borrow'd flaunts, behold The sternness of his presence?

To flout.

By that late date, however, the golden age of the lurid paperback book was pretty much over, and the sort of punishment meted out to Aday and Maxey for flaunting the sexual mores of a McCarthyite culture would soon be a thing of the past.

Wheeler said companies already are flaunting the rules by offering free or sponsored data services for some products.