vaunty

Updated: June 27, 2025

The bosom, elaborately bound downwards, is covered with a square bit of stuff, or a calico pagne most ungraceful of raiment-wrapped under the arms, and extending to the knees: "In longitude'tis sorely scanty, But 'tis their best, and they are vaunty." The poor and the slaves content themselves with grass cloth.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2

However, he might improve himself at Edinburgh, where a' manner of genteel things were then to be got at an easy rate, and doubtless the young laird got a probationer at the College to write the epitaph; but I have often wondered sin' syne, how he came to make it in Latin, for assuredly his dead parent, if he could have seen it, could not have read a single word o't, notwithstanding it was so vaunty about his virtues, and other civil and hospitable qualifications.

John Galt - The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder