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rodomontade

[rod-uh-mon-teyd, -tahd, -muhn-, roh-duh-] / ˌrɒd ə mɒnˈteɪd, -ˈtɑd, -mən-, ˌroʊ də- /


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The rodomontade was, Laurel saw, a gag, but the essence of its truth was soon realized.

From The New Yorker Sep. 18, 2015

What eristic discipline they brought to their sciolistic quibbles, though prone to occasional bursts of rodomontade!

From Washington Post Aug. 21, 2015

To engineers and architects, Hart Crane's rhapsody to Brooklyn Bridge was an unscientific, rummy rodomontade.

From Time Magazine Archive

It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a day of haphazard fiction and rodomontade criticism, the advent of a master workman is likely to be unheralded, if, indeed, he is fortunate enough to find a publisher to put him between covers.

From Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin by Vincent Starrett




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