Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ostentation

Ostentation , noun

[Latin ostentatio: compare French ostentation.]

1.
The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.
Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm. — Milton
He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation. — Atterbury
2.
A show or spectacle. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare