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Conspicuously displaying wealth or status to attract notice.
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- ostentatious mansion
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The ostentatious mansion dominated the lane.
An ostentatious chandelier filled the stairwell.
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Primary category: setting. Forms: Comparative more ostentatious; superlative most ostentatious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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