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ostentation
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synonyms: affectation, mummery ???
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Definition:1. a pretentious display2. an exhibition [archaic]
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my distaste for any ostentation, my inherent sense of the comme il faut,
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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LAERTES. Let this be so; His means of death, his obscure funeral— No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones, No noble rite nor formal ostentation— Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth, That I must call't in question.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Viler and more dishonest than the nobility despoiled and the decayed clergy, the bourgeoisie borrowed their frivolous ostentations, their braggadoccio, degrading these qualities by its lack of savoir-vivre; the bourgeoisie stole their faults and converted them into hypocritical vices.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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