extravaganza
noun/ɪkˌstɹæv.əˈɡæn.zə/US
Etymology
From Italian stravaganza under influence from English extravagance.
- borrowed from stravaganza
Definitions
An extravagant or eccentric piece of music, literature, or drama, originally associated…
An extravagant or eccentric piece of music, literature, or drama, originally associated with Victorian England.
- It grew out of the Victorian “extravaganza” style, which took serious opera and literature and applied broad comic satire (usually with music) that played to the masses.
- It starts with The Visitors, an icy, electronic track in which authoritarian agents hammer on the door of a fearful dissident – not the Abba you expected to come calling in this trailblazing, retro-futurist extravaganza of a show.
An instance of fantastical, unrestrained, lavish, or chaotic behaviour or conduct.
- The bride had her heart set on a simple wedding, but her parents insisted on a three-hundred-guest extravaganza.
- I find myself on Christmas day with people who are so tedious that a trip to the john appears an extravaganza by comparison.
- Maybe he’s throwing a Great Gatsby–themed cocktail hour as part of his wedding extravaganza!
The neighborhood
- neighborextravagance
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for extravaganza. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA