Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rodomontade; also, a piece of rodomontade; a brag.
- noun A blusterer; a braggart.
- Bragging; blustering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Rodomontade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
brag orboast ; arodomontade .
Etymologies
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Partly from Italian rodomontata (with change of suffix), partly an alteration of rodomontade, after -ado. Compare rodomontade.
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Examples
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I am not yet so cynical, as to approve the testament of Diogenes, * nor do I altogether allow that rodomontado of Lucan; *
Religio Medici 2007
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I am not yet so cynical, as to approve the testament of Diogenes, [I. j] nor do I altogether allow that rodomontado of Lucan; [I. k] -- -- "Coelo tegitur, qui non habet urnam."
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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§ 40: "Nor doe I altogether follow that rodomontado of Lucan (_Phars.
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632
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