rodomontade

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

/ ˌrɒd ə mɒnˈteɪd, -ˈtɑd, -mən-, ˌroʊ də- /

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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.

Nearby words

rodi, rodin, rodin, auguste, rodman, rodney, rodomontade, rodrigo, rodzinski, roe, roe deer, roe versus wade

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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Examples from the Web for rodomontade

The impostor they follow has nothing but fustian and rodomontade in his impudent lying book from beginning to end.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems|Walter Savage Landor
The death of Sir Richard Grenville was emphatically what the sixteenth century described as a rodomontade in act.
A Short History of the Royal Navy 1217 to 1688|David Hannay
This was rodomontade, with the advanced troops of the whole army now within sight of Paris.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846|Various
Except for this exhibition of rodomontade his address was a wonderful display of reasoning and erudition.
The Life of John Marshall Volume 4 of 4|Albert J. Beveridge

There was in the action as well as in the literature of the Elizabethan time a strain of rodomontade.
A Short History of the Royal Navy 1217 to 1688|David Hannay

British Dictionary definitions for rodomontade

rodomontade

/ (ˌrɒdəmɒnˈteɪd, -ˈtɑːd) literary /

noun

boastful words or behaviour; bragging
(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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