Also spelled rhodomontade
Meanings
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noun
formal or literary: vain, boastful, or pretentious talk or behavior
The speech offered little policy beneath its noisy rodomontade.
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adj
formal or literary: boastful, ranting, or pretentiously self-important
His rodomontade claims collapsed as soon as the evidence appeared.
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3
verb
rare: to boast or bluster pretentiously
The defeated candidate continued to rodomontade before a dwindling audience.
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Etymology
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.