"high-flown" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1850, R.M. Ballantyne, Hudson Bay:",
          "text": "Red River Settlement is, to use a high-flown expression, an oasis in the desert, and may be likened to a spot upon the moon or a solitary ship upon the ocean. In plain English, it is an isolated settlement on the borders of one of the vast prairies of North America.",
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        "pretentiously eloquent; highly figurative"
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          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "sense": "eloquent",
          "word": "bombastic"
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
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          "roman": "bombastičen",
          "sense": "pretentiously eloquent; highly figurative",
          "word": "бомбастичен"
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          "ref": "1905, Mrs George de Horne Vaizey, A Houseful of Girls:",
          "text": "It seems to me he makes troubles, by expecting every one else to be as quixotic as himself. He is not likely to find high-flown notions among ordinary business men!",
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        "lofty, extravagant, refined"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "sense": "lofty",
          "word": "high-minded"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
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          "roman": "ekstravaganten",
          "sense": "lofty, extravagant",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "highfalutin"
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  "word": "high-flown"
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      "form": "more high-flown",
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      "form": "most high-flown",
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          "ref": "1850, R.M. Ballantyne, Hudson Bay:",
          "text": "Red River Settlement is, to use a high-flown expression, an oasis in the desert, and may be likened to a spot upon the moon or a solitary ship upon the ocean. In plain English, it is an isolated settlement on the borders of one of the vast prairies of North America.",
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          "ref": "1905, Mrs George de Horne Vaizey, A Houseful of Girls:",
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      "sense": "eloquent",
      "word": "bombastic"
    },
    {
      "sense": "lofty",
      "word": "high-minded"
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      "roman": "bombastičen",
      "sense": "pretentiously eloquent; highly figurative",
      "word": "бомбастичен"
    },
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ekstravaganten",
      "sense": "lofty, extravagant",
      "word": "екстравагантен"
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  "word": "high-flown"
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