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fanfaronade

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11 lettersPronunciation /ˌfænfɛɹəˈneɪd/Sorted aaadeffnnorStarts with FEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Empty, self-assertive boasting; an instance of such behaviour.

Word origin

From French fanfaronnade (“bragging, boasting”); other senses influenced by fanfare.

Used in a sentence

  • “Cedric took us out to celebrate his signing a contract for his novel, being so damned ostentatious about his new affluence. I didn't want to rain on his fanfaronade […]”
  • With a fanfaronade of welcome they lowered their drawbridges
  • 1877, Frances Hodgson Burnett, That Lass o’ Lowrie’s, London: F. Warne, p. 55, he dined in public—a fanfaronade of trumpets proclaiming his down-sitting and his up-rising

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