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rodomontade

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11 lettersPronunciation /ˌɹɒ.də.mɒnˈtɑːd/Part of speech nounSorted addemnooortStarts with REnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. vain and empty boasting

Word origin

From French rodomontade, a reference to Rodomonte, a boastful character in the Italian Renaissance epic poems Orlando innamorato (1483) and its sequel Orlando furioso (1506–1532). Doublet of rodomontado.

Used in a sentence

  • Not a glimpse can you get of the merits or defects of the performers: they are hidden in a profusion of barbarous epithets and wilful rhodomontade.
  • Many of her ladyship’s letters were the most whimsical rhodomontades that ever blue-stocking penned.
  • He talks of her abroad as a stern and rigid master dealing with a naughty slave, though, by the look that accompanies his rhodomontade, I am convinced that at home he is the very model of "managed men."

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