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Examples
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"Is not my cousin a great fanfarron, monsieur," she asked.
Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... Rafael Sabatini 1912
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No! It is that swaggering espadachin -- that fanfarron of a Colonel Pendleton -- that pattern of an official, Mr. Hathaway -- that most beautiful heiress of the Californias, Miss
A Ward of the Golden Gate Bret Harte 1869
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"Your answer, sir, is characteristic of a fanfarron.
The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes Rafael Sabatini 1912
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