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
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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
Up bel canto hill and down rodomontade dale, con brio, with the rising young opera star Rockwell Blake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most excesses do not display the exaggerator's art in it's best light: they are merely blurbs and rodomontade.
From Time Magazine Archive
For this lover of great literature understood not one sentence out of twelve, and his favourite part was that of which he understood the least—the inimitable, mouth-filling rodomontade of the ghost in Hamlet.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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