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Synonyms for rodomontade

Grammar : Noun
Spell : rod-uh-mon-teyd, -tahd, -muh n-, roh-duh-
Phonetic Transcription : ˌrɒd ə mɒnˈteɪd, -ˈtɑd, -mən-, ˌroʊ də-

Définition of rodomontade

Origin :
  • 1610s (earlier rodomontado, 1590s), "vain boasting like that of Rodomonte," character in Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso." In dialectal Italian the name means literally "one who rolls (away) the mountain."
  • noun exaggeration
Example sentences :
  • Slang is nowadays very often the only vehicle by which rodomontade may be avoided.
  • Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten
  • Lily said, "Yes, it was so," without at all understanding what he meant by his rodomontade.
  • Extract from : « London's Heart » by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
  • It is amusing to trace Mr. Gosse's rodomontade to its source.
  • Extract from : « Ephemera Critica » by John Churton Collins
  • They did so; and a day it was, of boast, and swagger, and rodomontade.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Captain Bonneville » by Washington Irving
  • His old passion for a theatrical piece of rodomontade was not yet subdued.
  • Extract from : « The Loom of Youth » by Alec Waugh
  • The logic of events was at length subduing the rodomontade of soap-box oratory.
  • Extract from : « Marse Henry (Vol. 1) » by Henry Watterson
  • There was in the action as well as in the literature of the Elizabethan time a strain of rodomontade.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of the Royal Navy 1217 to 1688 » by David Hannay
  • The death of Sir Richard Grenville was emphatically what the sixteenth century described as a rodomontade in act.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of the Royal Navy 1217 to 1688 » by David Hannay
  • Except for this exhibition of rodomontade his address was a wonderful display of reasoning and erudition.
  • Extract from : « The Life of John Marshall Volume 4 of 4 » by Albert J. Beveridge
  • This F—— was a terrible Rattle, and could rodomontade better than any body.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV » by Karl Ludwig von Pllnitz

Antonyms for rodomontade

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