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fanfaronades

fanfaronades is the plural of fanfaronade.

fanfaronades is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fanfaronade.

Meaning of fanfaronade

Noun

fanfaronade (countable and uncountable, plural fanfaronades)

  1. Empty, self-assertive boasting; an instance of such behaviour.
    • […] the Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy, and Bragadochio brags of all other countries, could no more astonish his invincible heart, then would the cheeping of a mouse a bear robbed of her whelps.1652, Thomas Urquhart, “Εκσκυβαλαυρον (The Jewel)”, in The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight, Edinburgh: Thomas Maitland Dundrennan, published 1834, →ISBN, page 217
  2. Loud, showy display, celebration or proclamation (of something), sometimes involving the playing of trumpets or other musical instruments.
    • With a fanfaronade of welcome they lowered their drawbridges1850, John Miley, The History of the Papal States, London: T.C. Newby, Volume 2, Book 2, Chapter 4, p. 302

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Questions about fanfaronades

What is fanfaronades the plural of?
Fanfaronades is the plural of fanfaronade.

Words near fanfaronades in the dictionary

  1. fanfarings
  2. fanfaron
  3. fanfarona
  4. fanfaronade
  5. fanfaronaded
  6. fanfaronades
  7. fanfaronading
  8. fanfaronas
  9. fanfaronnade
  10. fanfaronnaded
  11. fanfaronnades

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