rodomontade
Americannoun
adjective
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of rodomontade
First recorded in 1605–15; from Middle French, from Italian Rodomonte, the boastful king of Algiers in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso + Middle French -ade -ade 1
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The rodomontade was, Laurel saw, a gag, but the essence of its truth was soon realized.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 18, 2015
What eristic discipline they brought to their sciolistic quibbles, though prone to occasional bursts of rodomontade!
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2015
From toppling seas to garish motel interiors, from Huck Finn fishermen to Piranesian renderings of ruined superbowls, all the rodomontade of fallen America is there.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as a firing squad is about to punctuate Gerard's career of rodomontade, Bonaparte steps before the muskets and saves his brigadier.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is probably the cause of a fault that never quits her for long, a tendency to make her characters express themselves with a lyrical extravagance which sometimes comes close to the confines of rodomontade.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
