Definition of "rodomontade" [rod•o•mon•tade]

• Pretentious boasting or bragging; bluster: "a detestable compound of vulgarity and rodomontade” ( John Morley). (noun)
• Pretentiously boastful or bragging. (adjective)
• To boast or brag; bluster. (verb-intransitive)

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• "That is what is termed a rodomontade of equal foolishness to Gormless Gordon's 'decade of shared prosperity'."
• "(Survey report 6801 summarizing Adm. 68/195, 156v, and other data in Adm. 68/194 and/196, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; A letter of Carter's executors to Dawkins 1738 May 10 refers to "your ship Bailey.") [3] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a "rodomontade" is "a vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant saying or speech.""
• "I had to look up what rodomontade means and it means arrogant boasting blustering or ranting talk"