a. rare. [f. FLARE sb. + -Y1.] Gaudy, showy.
1866. Carlyle, Remin. (1881), I. 157. They were not so well dressed as their Edinburgh sisters; something flary, glary, colours too flagrant and ill-assorted. Ibid. (1873), in Mrs. Carlyle’s Lett., I. 263. I remember these Mudies—flary, staring, and conceited, stolid-looking girls, thinking themselves handsome, being brought to live with us here, to get out of the maternal element, while ‘places’ were being prepared for them; but no amount of trouble was, or could be, of the least avail.
