Definition of "flaunt"

The house came into sight, above the cedar grove beyond whose black interstices an apple orchard flaunted in the sunny afternoon.

1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 26

Never one to miss an opportunity to flaunt his wealth, Khashoggi let his yacht be used for the 1983 Bond film Never Say Never Again.

2017 June 7, Adam Lusher, “Adnan Khashoggi: the 'whoremonger' whose arms deals funded a playboy life of decadence and 'pleasure wives'”, in The Independent‎, London

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; […]

1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “How Bull and Frog went to Law with Lord Strutt about the Premisses, and were Joined by the Rest of the Tradesmen”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], pages 8–9

One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.

1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […]

[T]he younger belles had begun to flaunt in the French fashions of flimsy muslins, shortwaisted— narrow-skirted.

1856, Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Chapter VI

[…] Mrs. Wix seemed to flaunt there in her finery.

1897 October 16, Henry James, chapter XXV, in What Maisie Knew, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Herbert S. Stone & Co.

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

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii]

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.

2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 22

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

2017 January 20, David Shepardson, “Outgoing FCC chair warns against overturning net neutrality”, in Reuters‎