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What is a rhodomontade?
talk or behaviour that is boastful (= praising yourself too much) or exaggerated (= making something seem bigger or more important than it really is): the rodomontade of the expounders of philosophy. Fewer examples. The President's boastful rodomontade was parodied abroad.
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RODOMONTADE meaning: 1. talk or behaviour that is boastful...
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rodomontade definicja: 1. talk or behaviour that is boastful...
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Meaning & use. noun. 1.a. 1591–. A vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful, arrogant, or bombastic speech or piece of writing; †an arrogant act (obsolete). α forms. 1591. The ennemy who with a great Rhodomontade or brag had wonne a suburbe. E. Aggas, translation of Answeare Supplication sig. D3.
rodomontade in American English. (ˌrɑdəmɑnˈteid, -ˈtɑːd, -mən-, ˌroudə-) (verb -taded, -tading) noun. 1. vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.
Rodomontade (which can also be spelled rhodomontade) originated in Italian poetry. Rodomonte was a fierce and boastful king in Orlando Innamorato, Count Matteo M. Boiardo's late 15th century epic, and later in the 1516 sequel Orlando Furioso, written by poet Lodovico Ariosto.
4 days ago · Boastful or inflated talk or behaviour; the word comes (in the early 17th century) via French from the Italian form of Rodomont, the boastful Saracen leader in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso. From the late 16th century, rodomont came to be used to mean a braggart or boaster.
What does the noun rodomont mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun rodomont. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the noun rodomont? Fewer than 0.01 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency. How is the noun rodomont pronounced?
verb (used without object) , rod·o·mon·tad·ed, rod·o·mon·tad·ing. to boast; brag; talk big. rodomontade. / -ˈtɑːd; ˌrɒdəmɒnˈteɪd / noun. boastful words or behaviour; bragging. ( as modifier ) rodomontade behaviour.
