rodomontade

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RODOMONTA'DE, noun [See Rodomont.] Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant. I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible. RODOMONTA'DE, verb intransitive To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.
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