rodomontade

[rod-uh-mon-teyd, -tahd, -muh n-, roh-duh-]

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noun

vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.

adjective

bragging.

verb (used without object), rod·o·mon·tad·ed, rod·o·mon·tad·ing.

to boast; brag; talk big.

Origin of rodomontade

1605–15; < Middle French < Italian Rodomonte, the boastful king of Algiers in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso + Middle French -ade -ade¹

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Related Words for rodomontade

grandiloquence, bombast, boast, braggart, rant, pretension, pride, bluster

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Historical Examples of rodomontade

Slang is nowadays very often the only vehicle by which rodomontade may be avoided.
The Slang Dictionary
John Camden Hotten
Lily said, "Yes, it was so," without at all understanding what he meant by his rodomontade.
London's Heart
B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
It is amusing to trace Mr. Gosse's rodomontade to its source.
Ephemera Critica
John Churton Collins
They did so; and a day it was, of boast, and swagger, and rodomontade.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
Washington Irving
His old passion for a theatrical piece of rodomontade was not yet subdued.
The Loom of Youth
Alec Waugh

British Dictionary definitions for rodomontade

rodomontade

noun

1. boastful words or behaviour; bragging
2. (as modifier)rodomontade behaviour

verb

(intr) to boast, bluster, or rant

Word Origin for rodomontade

C17: from French, from Italian rodomonte a boaster, from Rodomonte the name of a braggart king of Algiers in epic poems by Boiardo and Ariosto

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Word Origin and History for rodomontade

1610s (earlier rodomontado, 1590s), "vain boasting like that of Rodomonte," character in Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso." In dialectal Italian the name means literally "one who rolls (away) the mountain."