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rodomontade


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rodomontade  \Rod`o*mon*tade"\,  n.  [F.,  fr  It  rodomontana  See 
  {Rodomont},  n.] 
  Vain  boasting;  empty  bluster  or  vaunting;  rant. 
 
  I  could  show  that  the  rodomontades  of  Almanzor  are 
  neither  so  irrational  nor  impossible.  --Dryden. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rodomontade  \Rod`o*mon*tade"\,  v.  i. 
  To  boast;  to  brag;  to  bluster;  to  rant. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rodomontade 
  n  :  vain  and  empty  boasting  [syn:  {braggadocio},  {bluster}] 




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