Rodomontade

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Widowers; then casting out a discourse of playing a game at Cards, that they may the better see what mettle the Lady is made of, and then again when they come to a Baiting-place, or where they must stay the night over, there they domineer lustily with them, and play the part of a Rodomontade.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

"Freischutz-Rodomontade" is a student's joke, to which one can take quite kindly, but which one cannot hold up as a heroic feat.

Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

⁂ Rodomontade (4 _syl. _), from Rodomont, a bragging although a brave knight.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

‘Rodomontade’ is from Rodomont, a blustering and boasting hero of Boiardo, adopted by Ariosto;

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846