Flamboyant

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This article is about the style of architecture. For tree often referred to as flamboyant, see Royal Poinciana. For flamboyant as adjective, see flaming. For Pet Shop Boys' song, see Flamboyant (song).

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The façade of the Church of the Trinity, Vendôme, France (1506).

Flamboyant is the name given to a florid style of late Gothic architecture in vogue in France and Spain during the 15th century. The name derives from the flame-like windings of its tracery and the dramatic lengthening of pediments and the tops of arches.

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Flamboyant Gothic blind arcading and purely decorative tracery on the 16th-century transept of Senlis