fanfaronade
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fanfaronade
- /ˌfænfɛɹəˈneɪd/
- /ˌfænfɛɹəˈnɑːd/
Where it comes from
From French fanfaronnade (“bragging, boasting”); other senses influenced by fanfare.
noun fanfaronades
- Empty, self-assertive boasting; an instance of such 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.
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Loud, showy display, celebration or proclamation (of something), sometimes involving the playing of trumpets or other musical instruments.
With a fanfaronade of welcome they lowered their drawbridges
Similar: blare, blast, fanfare, ostentation
verb fanfaronades · fanfaronading · fanfaronaded
- To engage in empty, self-assertive boasting. 1990, E. Grady Jolly, United States Circuit Judge, opinion regarding the matter of Clark Pipe & Supply Co., cited in Robert L. Jordan and William D. Warren, Bankruptcy, Westbury, NY: The Foundation Press, fourth edition, 1995, pp. 653-654, Given the agreement he was working under, his testimony was
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To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically.
1892, Robert Brown, The Story of Africa and Its Explorers, London: Cassell, Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 208,
Nowadays a returning traveller with half his merits is […] fanfaronaded every step of his homeward journey. The telegraph tells how he has arrived here, the special correspondent what he has to
Similar: trumpet
- To make a noisy, showy display or celebration; to play a fanfare. Even when the inhabitants of the village took to rising at four o'clock in the morning, and fanfaronaded with ill-blown bugles, and flaring torches, and a dreadful untiring drum about the street, I forbore to grumble,
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