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Peacockery

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Noun
  1. 1
    Gaudy showiness; ostentation. uncountable, usually

    "[…] he was so deeply struck with the shock of this revelation that he actually forgot himself and his own peacockery."

Etymology

From peacock + -ery; the (male) peacock puts on showy displays of his tailfeathers.

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