rodomontade

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    vain and empty boasting

Word Origin

rodomontade (n.)
1610s (earlier rodomontado, 1590s), "vain boasting like that of Rodomonte," character in Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso." In dialectal Italian the name means literally "one who rolls (away) the mountain."

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