rodomontade

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   formal or literary: vain, boastful, or pretentious talk or behavior

   The speech offered little policy beneath its noisy rodomontade.

2. 2
   adj

   formal or literary: boastful, ranting, or pretentiously self-important

   His rodomontade claims collapsed as soon as the evidence appeared.

3. 3
   verb

   rare: to boast or bluster pretentiously

   The defeated candidate continued to rodomontade before a dwindling audience.

Borrowed from French rodomontade, from Rodomonte, a boastful warrior in Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando innamorato and Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso. The character's swaggering speeches made his name a byword for empty boasting. Rhodomontade is a dated spelling variant.

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