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rodomontades

rodomontades is the plural of rodomontade.

Meaning of rodomontade

Noun

rodomontade (countable and uncountable, plural rodomontades)

  1. Vain boasting; a rant; pretentious 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

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Questions about rodomontades

What is rodomontades the plural of?
Rodomontades is the plural of rodomontade.

Words near rodomontades in the dictionary

  1. Rodolphus
  2. rodomel
  3. rodomont
  4. rodomontade
  5. rodomontaded
  6. rodomontades
  7. rodomontading
  8. rodomontadist
  9. rodomontadists
  10. rodomontado
  11. rodomontadoes

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