20 April 2016
rodomontade
[rod-uh-mon-teyd, -tahd, -muh n-, roh-duh-]
noun
1. vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.
adjective
2. bragging.
verb (used without object), rodomontaded, rodomontading.
3. to boast; brag; talk big.
Origin of rodomontade
Middle French, Italian
1605-1615; < Middle French < Italian Rodomonte, the boastful king of Algiers in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso + Middle French -ade -ade1
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Examples from the Web for rodomontade
Historical Examples
Such work was to him for the most part a detestable compound of vulgarity and rodomontade.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)
John Morley
Lily said, “Yes, it was so,” without at all understanding what he meant by his rodomontade.
London’s Heart
B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
The death of Sir Richard Grenville was emphatically what the sixteenth century described as a rodomontade in act.
A Short History of the Royal Navy 1217 to 1688
David Hannay
He spoke with warmth and feeling, but with an entire absence of boastfulness or rodomontade.
Benjamin Franklin
John Torrey Morse, Jr.
Anagram
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Today’s quote
If music made sense, we wouldn’t have rock and roll.
– Steve Stine
On this day
20 April 1889 – birth of Adolf Hitler in Austria. Austrian-German politician. German Chancellor from 2 August 1934 – 30 April 1945. Genocidal megalomaniac. Died 30 April 1945.
20 April 1908 – first day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
20 April 1912 – death of Bram Stoker, Irish novellist, author of ‘Dracula’. Born 8 November 1847.
20 April 1918 – German flying ace, Manfred Von Richthoffen (the Red Baron), shoots down his 79th and 80th victims. The following day he was fatally wounded while pursuing a Sopwith Camel. Before yielding to his injuries, Richthoffen landed his plane in an area controlled by the Australian Imperial Force. Richthoffen died moments after allied troops reached him. Witnesses claim his last word was ‘kaputt’, which means broken, ruined, done-in or wasted.
20 April 1939 – Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song, ‘Strange Fruit’.