Definition of "ostent" [os•tent]

• Appearance; air; mien (noun)
• Manifestation; token; portent (noun)

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• "After a Sydney-wide ineluctable ostent — for Lo! the sky turned blood red and all took on a Martian hue — the Six Sennight Remedial Treatment for Elimination of Superfluity of the Central Circumferences for the Young At Heart Though Not in Years has arrived through the good offices of the local dak wallah."
• "In the city of glorious ostent and vanity, he had come to look for humility and peace."
• "They resented this ostent of entry; the men more sullenly than the women, some of whom in their hearts could not help admiring its high-and-mighty insolence."